
Taras Shevchenko (1926)
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.
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Original Language | uk |
Popularity | 0.347 |
Directed By
Pyotr Chardynin
Crew
Dmytro Buzko
Vasyl Krychevskyi
Borys Zaveliev
Mykola Panchenko
Pyotr Chardynin
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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