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. The famous Modernism artist, academician Vasyl Kryvhevskyi designed the film, and professor Serhii Yefremov served as a consultant. 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. Amvrosii Buchma played Taras Shevchenko.
Cast
Amvrosii Buchma
Taras Shevchenko
Vasyl Liudvynskyi
Taras in childhood
Nikolai Panov
Taras's father
Matviy Lyarov
Engelhardt, landowner
Ivan Zamychkovskyi
Shchepkin, actor
Boris Lesovoy
Zhukovskiy, poet
Volodymyr Lisovskyi
General
Ivan Khudoleyev
Nicholas I
Viktor Dobrovolsky
Alexander II
Arkadiy Malskiy
Deacon
Musiy Dzhura
Taras's grandfather
Yurii Shumskyi
Unknown
Ivan Kapralov
Unknown
Natalya Uzhviy
Unknown
A. Ostashevsky
Unknown
K. Keleynikov
Unknown
A. Lyarova
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