Taras Shevchenko

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1926 · 185 min · History · Drama

Overview

The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. At that time, it was one of the most expensive films, as for the first time experts in history, ethnography, and literary studies were involved in pre-production. Consisting of numerous short stories, the film that shows the life of Shevchenko as an adolescent, a soldier, a poet, was successfully demonstrated in Ukraine and abroad and became the most acknowledged cinema project of 1926.

Directed by Pyotr Chardynin

Cast

• Amvrosii Buchma — Taras Shevchenko
• Vasyl Liudvynskyi — Taras in childhood
• Nikolai Panov — Taras's father
• Matvei Lyarov — Engelhardt, landowner
• Ivan Zamychkovskyi — Shchepkin, actor