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.

Cast

Amvrosi Buchma

Taras Shevchenko

Vasyl Liudvynskyi

Taras in childhood

Ivan Khudoleyev

Nicholas I

Viktor Dobrovolsky

Alexander II

Matvey Liarov

landlord Engelhardt

Mykola Panov

Taras’s father

Boris Lesovoy

poet Zhukovsky

Volodymyr Lisovskyi

a general