The read
It runs a compact 50m.
Synopsis
This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.
Ratings
IMDb9.2/10
5 audience votes
Key crew
- Ivan KavaleridzeDirector
- Pavel TolstyakovOriginal Music Composer
- Ivan KavaleridzeWriter
Cast
- Ivan TverdokhlibPauper
- Oksana PodlesnayaPauper's wife
- Vasyl KrasenkoKurkul (miser)
- Heorhiy AstafyevKurkul's son
- V. PiddubnyiKurkul's son
- Stepan ShahaidaComrade Artyom
- T. Vagner(uncredited)
- Stepan VasyutinskiyWorker (uncredited)
- Ivan Malikov-Elvorti(uncredited)
- Arkadiy MalskiyRailroad worker (uncredited)
- Petro Masokha(uncredited)
- Serhii MininRed army commander (uncredited)