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. 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 Of - Тарас Шевченко
Crew Members
Amvrosi Buchma Taras Shevchenko
Vasyl Liudvynskyi Taras in childhood
Matvey Liarov landlord Engelhardt
Ivan Khudoleyev Nicholas I
Mykola Panov Taras’s father
Viktor Dobrovolsky Alexander II
Boris Lesovoy poet Zhukovsky
Volodymyr Lisovskyi a general
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