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.
Cast
- Amvrosii Buchma as Taras Shevchenko
- Vasyl Liudvynskyi as Taras in childhood
- Nikolai Panov as Taras's father
- Matvei Lyarov as Engelhardt, landowner
- Ivan Zamychkovskyi as Shchepkin, actor
- Boris Lesovoy as Zhukovskiy, poet
- Volodymyr Lisovskyi as General
- Ivan Khudoleyev as Nicholas I
- Viktor Dobrovolsky as Alexander II
- Arkadiy Malskiy as Deacon