Taras Shevchenko (1926)

0.0/10 • 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.

Cast

Amvrosii Buchma

Taras Shevchenko

Vasyl Liudvynskyi

Taras in childhood

Nikolai Panov

Matvei Lyarov

Engelhardt, landowner

Ivan Zamychkovskyi

Shchepkin, actor

Volodymyr Lisovskyi

Ivan Khudoleyev

Viktor Dobrovolsky

Yurii Shumskyi

Ivan Kapralov

Nataliia Uzhvii

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