Poetic treatment of the early life of Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. A biopic 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 "A Dream" (A comedy). The film features the first appearance on the silver screen of the iconic Ukrainian actor Ivan Mykolaichuk (as Taras Shevchenko).
Ivan Mykolaichuk
Yuriy Leontyev
Dmytro Milyutenko
Nataliia Naum
Mikhail Derzhavin
Kostiantyn Stepankov
Vasyl Dashenko
Dmytro Franko
Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi
Vladimir Goncharov
Mykola Talyura
Efim Kopelyan
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Anatoliy Ivanov
Vladimir Belokurov
Vyacheslav Voronin
Rayisa Nedashkivska
Petro Vesklyarov
Mykola Yakovchenko
Nikolay Grinko
Lev Perfilov
Nikolay Pishvanov