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2Gloom
4Feat
6Banner
Characters
The Heroes
Three Cossacks & Puhach the owl, with the crimson banner
The Villains
Comic caricatures of greed, corruption, betrayal & cowardice
Storyboard · 8 beats
1Sendoff
Wide shot: the three Cossack heroes stride out of a sunny Ukrainian village across a golden steppe at dawn toward Kyiv on the horizon; Puhac
2Gloom
The heroes crest a green hill and look down at Kyiv in the distance under a heavy grey storm-gloom; tiny comical villains skulk around the c
3Plan
Close group shot: the short clever Cossack and Puhach the owl huddle conspiratorially and hatch a scheme, the owl pointing a wing, all grinn
4Feat
Action shot: the huge burly Cossack performs a mighty comic spin-and-stomp that sends the comical villains (money-bag oligarch, trench-coat
5Rout
The comical villains flee in terror, tripping over each other and scrambling away from the city in a cloud of dust; Puhach dive-bombs after
6Banner
Heroic low-angle shot: the three Cossacks together raise and unfurl a great crimson banner bearing a white Cossack cross atop a hill / city
7Liberation
The grey gloom lifts and breaks apart; Kyiv's golden cathedral domes blaze in warm sunlight, white doves rising into a clear blue sky; Puhac
8Finale
Joyful wide shot: the three Cossacks dance a triumphant hopak with happy townsfolk in embroidered clothes in a sunlit Kyiv square under the