Released:
1936-02-04

Overview:
The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill fame. In the troops an ordinary peasant gets acquainted with an ideological revolutionary and becomes inspired with the feeling of inequity to the existing social structure. And when the time comes to return to the native village, he will make the sir pays by his blood for all wrong-doings against the peasants. A film based on works and biography of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (1814 - 1861).

Director:
Ivan Kavaleridze

Runtime:
1h 23min

Genre:
History, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Ivan Tverdokhlib
  as
  Ivas
• 
  Polina Nyatko
  as
  Kateryna
• 
  Danylo Antonovych
  as
  Havrylov, revolutionary
• 
  Oleksandr Serdyuk
  as
  Colonel Svichka
• 
  Ivan Shtraukh
  as
  Merchant Zhukov