The film is set in the 17th century during the Swedish invasion
of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the years 1655 to 1657,
known as The Deluge, which was eventually thwarted by the Polish-Lithuanian forces.
However, a quarter of the Polish-Lithuanian population died through war and plague, and the country's economy was devastated.

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