The film adaptation of Taras Shevchenko’s biography of 1925 is the first Ukrainian biopic. At that time, it was one of the most expensive films, as for the first time experts in history, ethnography, and literary studies were involved in…
Germany, 1923. Hunger, ruin and strikes. Workers, called to fight by the communist Nils Unger, seize an arsenal of weapons and turn each building into a fortress.
The film based on Volodymyr Sosiura's verse novel of 1925 was considered lost for a long time. The film critic Liubomyr Hoseiko found it on 16mm film in archives of the French Film Collection