Taras Shevchenko

Тарас Шевченко

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.

Director

Pyotr Chardynin

Screenplay

Dmytro Buzko

Screenplay

Mikhail Panchenko

Status

Released

Release date

01/01/1926

Original language

Ukrainian