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