Taras Shevchenko
1926, Ukrainian. Directed by Pyotr Chardynin.
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.
- Runtime
- 3h 5m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Ukrainian
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Cast & crew
- Pyotr ChardyninDirector
- Amvrosii BuchmaTaras Shevchenko
- Vasyl LiudvynskyiTaras in childhood
- Nikolai PanovTaras's father
- Matvei LyarovEngelhardt, landowner
- Ivan ZamychkovskyiShchepkin, actor
- Boris LesovoyZhukovskiy, poet
- Volodymyr LisovskyiGeneral
- Ivan KhudoleyevNicholas I
- Viktor DobrovolskyAlexander II
- Arkadiy MalskiyDeacon
- Musiy DzhuraTaras's grandfather
- Yurii ShumskyiCast
Details
- Released
- 1 January 1926
- Original title
- Тарас Шевченко
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Dmytro Buzko, Mikhail Panchenko
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Taras Shevchenko isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1926. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Taras Shevchenko (1926) was directed by Pyotr Chardynin and stars Amvrosii Buchma, Vasyl Liudvynskyi, Nikolai Panov.