Taras Shevchenko
(1926)

Released: 1926-01-01

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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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Amvrosi Buchma

as Taras Shevchenko

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Vasyl Liudvynskyi

as Taras in childhood

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Matvey Liarov

as landlord Engelhardt

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Ivan Khudoleyev

as Nicholas I

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Mykola Panov

as Taras’s father

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Viktor Dobrovolsky

as Alexander II

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Boris Lesovoy

as poet Zhukovsky

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