Original title: Son

Copyright: the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1964.

Format: feature narrative

Carrier: DVD

Color: color

Length: 91 min.

Original language: Ukrainian

English subtitles: yes

Film crew

Director: Volodymyr Denysenko

Script writer: Dmytro Pavlychko and Volodymyr Denysenko

Director of photography: Mykola Chorny

Production designer: Mykola Riznyk

Original music: Oleksander Bilash

Sound editor: Rostyslav Maksymtsov and Anatolii Chornoochenko

Produced by the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Film cast:

Ivan Mykolaichuk as Taras Shevchenko, Yurko Leontiev as little Taras, Dmytro Miliutenko as Uncle Ivan,  Natalia Naum as Yadviha Husikovska, Mikhail Derzhavin as Briulov, Kostiantyn Stepankov as Soshenko, Vasyl Dashenko as Venetsianov,  Dmytro Franko as Zhukovsky, Ivan Kononenko as Hryhorovych,  Volodymyr Honcharov as Engelhardt, Mykola Taliura as Shyriaev,  Yefim Kopelian as Prekhtel.

Synopsis

A biopic of the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko, made on the occasion of his 150th anniversary. It dwells on the first part of the Shevchenko's life leading up to the writing of his rebellious poem "The Dream". The film features the first appearance on the silver screen of the iconic Ukrainian actor Ivan Mykolaichuk (as Taras Shevchenko).