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.
as Taras Shevchenko
as Taras in childhood
as Taras's father
as Engelhardt, landowner
as Shchepkin, actor
as Zhukovskiy, poet
as General
as Nicholas I
as Alexander II
as Deacon
as Taras's grandfather
