Overview
Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells on the first part of the Shevchenko's life leading up to the writing of his rebellious poem "A Dream" (A comedy). The film features the first appearance on the silver screen of the iconic Ukrainian actor Ivan Mykolaichuk (as Taras Shevchenko).
Cast
- Ivan Mykolaichuk as Taras Shevchenko
- Yuriy Leontyev as young Taras
- Dmytro Milyutenko as Uncle Ivan
- Nataliia Naum as Yadviha Husikovska
- Mikhail Derzhavin as Karl Bryullov
- Kostiantyn Stepankov as Soshenko
- Vasyl Dashenko as Venetsianov
- Dmytro Franko as Vasyl Zhukovsky
- Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi as Hryhorovych
- Vladimir Goncharov as Engelhardt