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).
Іван Твердохліб
as Ivas
Polina Nyatko
as Kateryna
Danylo Antonovych
as Havrylov, revolutionary
Oleksandr Serdyuk
as Colonel Svichka
Ivan Shtraukh
as Merchant Zhukov
Hnat Yura
as Sydorenko
Наталья Ужвий
as Nastasya Markovna
Ivan Maryanenko
as General Ladanskiy
Владимир Ершов
as Emperor Nicholas I
Chuta Eristova-Zhgenti
as Princess Dadiani
შოთა ნოზაძე
as Georgian prisoner
Микола Надемський
as Taras Shevchenko
