Taras Shevchenko

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Amvrosi Buchma

Taras Shevchenko

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Vasyl Liudvynskyi

Taras in childhood

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Matvey Liarov

landlord Engelhardt

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Ivan Khudoleyev

Nicholas I

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Mykola Panov

Taras’s father

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Viktor Dobrovolsky

Alexander II

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Boris Lesovoy

poet Zhukovsky

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Volodymyr Lisovskyi

a general

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Pyotr Chardynin
Camera	Camera Operator	Borys Zaveliev
Art	Art Direction	Vasyl Krychevskyi
Writing	Writer	Mykola Panchenko Dmytro Buzko
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