Taras Shevchenko
Directed by Pyotr Chardynin
Plot
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.
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Cast
Amvrosii Buchma
Taras Shevchenko
Vasyl Liudvynskyi
Taras in childhood
Nikolai Panov
Taras's father
Matvei 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
Ivan Kapralov
Nataliia Uzhvii
A. Ostashevsky