
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.
Amvrosii BuchmaTaras Shevchenko
Vasyl LiudvynskyiTaras in childhood
Nikolai PanovTaras's father
Matvei LyarovEngelhardt, landowner
Ivan ZamychkovskyiShchepkin, actorBoris LesovoyZhukovskiy, poet
Volodymyr LisovskyiGeneral
Ivan KhudoleyevNicholas I
Viktor DobrovolskyAlexander IIArkadiy MalskiyDeaconMusiy DzhuraTaras's grandfather
Yurii Shumskyi
Ivan Kapralov
Nataliia UzhviiA. Ostashevsky