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Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko

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  • Cast
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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1926

Runtime

3h 5m

Genres

History, Drama

Original Title

Тарас Шевченко

Production Companies

VUFKU

Director

Pyotr Chardynin

Description

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.