• Source: Taras Shevchenko (film)

Taras Shevchenko is a 1951 Soviet biopic about the Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko, written and directed by Igor Savchenko. The New York Times praised the acting of Sergei Bondarchuk.




Synopsis


Summer 1841. Lermontov is killed. The news of this arrives to a modest attic of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where the young artist and poet Taras Shevchenko lives and works. Growing up in a Ukrainian peasant family, knowing all hardships of serf life, Shevchenko in the years of study clearly identifies the meaning of true art, which is to serve the interests of the people.
After graduating from the Academy, Shevchenko goes to Ukraine. The poems of Taras are imbued with love for the common people. Landowner-nationalists, liberal leaders of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood, try to "tame" the famous poet, but Shevchenko forever has made his choice; he is on the side of the people, their defender and crooner. The 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 Serakovsky, captain Kosarev and the major 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.




Awards


Sergei Bondarchuk won the Stalin Prize and the Best Actor Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for his acting.




Cast


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
Yevgeny Samoylov as Nikolay Speshnev
Lavrenty Masokha as Mykola Kostomarov
Pavel Shpringfeld as Panteleimon Kulish
Aleksey Konsovsky as Vladimir Kurochkin
Grigory Shpigel as Karl Bryullov
Mikhail Nazvanov as Nicholas I of Russia
Mark Bernes as captain Kosarev
Dmitri Milyutenko as major Uskov
Marianna Strizhenova as Agafia Uskova
Mikhail Kuznetsov as soldier Skobelev
Natalia Uzhviy as Yarina Shevchenko
Mikhail Troyanovsky as chief of gendarmes
Alexander Khvylya as Lord Barabash
Garen Zhukovskaya as Lady Barabash
Mikhail Vysotsky as Yevdokim Appolonovich Lukashevich
Gennady Yudin as agitator
Leonid Kmit as staff captain Obryadin
Aleksandr Baranov as Potapov
Konstantin Sorokin as ginger corporal
Vladimir Soshalsky as ensign Nikolai Mombelli, Shevchenko's friend
Latif Fayziyev as Kyrgyz
Stanislav Chekan as cabby
Stepan Shkurat as serf bandura player
Dmitry Kapka as priest
Vyacheslav Tikhonov as representative of the Petersburg youth
Ivan Savkin as representative of the Petersburg youth
Marina Ladynina as Countess Pototskaya
Nikolai Grinko as serf-rebel
Vladimir Troshin as serf-rebel
Anatoly Chemodurov as student
Oleg Golubitsky as student
Vsevolod Sanayev as episode




References






External links


Taras Shevchenko at IMDb

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Aleksandr Alov
• Ivan Pereverzev
• Ada Rogovtseva
• Suku Romani
• Tamara Duda
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• Taras Shevchenko (film)
• Taras Shevchenko (disambiguation)
• Taras Shevchenko Place
• Taras Bulba
• Prometheus (1936 film)
• Sergei Bondarchuk
• Shevchenko National Prize
• Kostiantyn Tyshchenko
• List of Shevchenko National Prize recipients
• Inna Shevchenko