Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko (1951)

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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.

Director: Ihor Savchenko
Writer: Ihor Savchenko

Casts

	Sergei Bondarchuk as Taras Shevchenko
	Vladimir Chestnokov as Nikolay Chernyshevsky
	Nikolai Timofeyev as Nikolay Dobrolyubov
	Hnat Yura as Mikhail Shchepkin
	Ivan Pereverzev as Zygmunt Sierakowski
	Nataliia Uzhvii as Yaryna Shevchenko
	Evgeniy Samoylov as Nikolay Speshnev
	Mikhail Kuznetsov as Skobelev
	Aleksey Konsovskiy as Kurochkin
	Mark Bernes as Kosarev
	Dmytro Milyutenko as Irakli Uskov
	Marianna Strizhenova as Agafia Uskova
	Lavrenti Masokha as Nikolay Kostomarov
	Pavel Shpringfeld as Panteleimon Kulish
	Mikhail Troyanovsky as Leonty Dubelt
	Mikhail Nazvanov as Nicholas I / Alexander III
	Aleksandr Khvylia as Pan Barabash
	Garen Zhukovskaya as Pani Barabash
	Mykhailo Vysotskyi as Evdokim Lukashevich
	Gennadi Yudin as Provocateur
	Leonid Kmit as Obryadin
	Aleksandr Baranov as Potapov
	Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Cameo
	Aleksandr Kelberer as Count Fyodor Tolstoy
	Anna Kushnirenko as Shchepkin's sister (uncredited)

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