Taras Shevchenko
(1926)
Year: 1926
Runtime: 185 мин
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Пётр Чардынин
Cast: Амвросий Бучма, Vasyl Liudvynskyi, Николай Панов, Матвей Ляров, Иван Замычковский, Boris Lesovoy, Владимир Лисовский, Иван Худолеев, Виктор Добровольский, Аркадий Мальский
Plot
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.