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).
as Ivas
as Kateryna
as Havrylov, revolutionary
as Colonel Svichka
as Merchant Zhukov
as Sydorenko
as Nastasya Markovna
as General Ladanskiy
as Emperor Nicholas I
as Princess Dadiani
as Georgian prisoner
as Taras Shevchenko