Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko

1951 · 117 min · ★ 4.8 · Drama, History

Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people. The poems of Shevchenko are imbued with love for the common people. Fiery freedom-loving creativity of Taras Shevchenko is known throughout Russia. Nicholas I exiles the poet to the distant Caspian fort where he is to serve as an ordinary soldier and is banned from writing or drawing. In the poet's difficult days he has the support of Ukrainian soldier Skobelev, Polish revolutionary Sierakowski, captain Kosarev and the commandant of the fortress, Uskov. For the sake of his release Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov are hard at work. And so, the sick and aged Shevchenko is finally free. Together with Chernyshevsky and Dobrolyubov, he dreams of a bright future of the motherland, when the Russian and Ukrainian peoples throw off the chains of slavery.

Directed by Ihor Savchenko · Written by Ihor Savchenko

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Sergei Bondarchuk Taras Shevchenko
Vladimir Chestnokov Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Nikolai Timofeyev Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Hnat Yura Mikhail Shchepkin
Ivan Pereverzev Zygmunt Sierakowski
Nataliia Uzhvii Yaryna Shevchenko
Evgeniy Samoylov Nikolay Speshnev
Mikhail Kuznetsov Skobelev
Aleksey Konsovskiy Kurochkin
Mark Bernes Kosarev
Dmytro Milyutenko Irakli Uskov
Marianna Strizhenova Agafia Uskova

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