Taras Shevchenko

The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenkos 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 preproduction 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