Taras Shevchenko
1926
Ukrainian SSR
First Film Studio VUFKU (Odesa)
185 min
biopic
Petro Chardynin
Mykola Panchenko, Dmytro Buzko
Borys Zaveliev
Vasyl Krychevskyi
Amvrosii Buchma (Taras Shevchenko), Vasylko Liudvynskyi (Taras in his childhood), Ivan Khudolieiev (Nicholas I), Mykola Panov (Taras’s father), Matvii Liarov (landlord Engelhardt), Ivan Zamychkovskyi (actor Shchepkin), B. Lisovyi (poet Zhukovsky), Volodymyr Lisovskyi (a general), V. Dobrovolskyi (Alexander II), Oleksandr Malskyi (a deacon), Musii Dzhura (Taras’s grandfather), Yurii Shumskyi (?), Ivan Kapralov, Nataliia Uzhvii (?), A. Ostashevskyi, K. Keleinikov, V. Indlin, A. Liarova, Adaniev, O. Ostashevskyi, A. Liarova
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.