Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko (1926)

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.

Date of release
1926-01-01
Runtime
3h 5m
Genres
History, Drama
Director
Pyotr Chardynin

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