Taras Shevchenko

Name: Taras Shevchenko
Director: Pyotr Chardynin
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1926-01-01
Duration: 3 h 5 min
Rating: 0
Cast: Amvrosii Buchma, Vasyl Liudvynskyi, Nikolai Panov, Matvei Lyarov, Ivan Zamychkovskyi

Directed by Pyotr Chardynin

History

Drama

19263h 5m

Overview

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.