Vasya, the Reformer

Lost film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (his first film) and Favst Lopatynskyi. It is a satire of the NEP period. Vasia, the son of a factory’s worker, is attracted by the romance of adventures. And he goes to look for them. He saves a drowning drunkard who tries to beat him. Vasia escapes from him in a vehicle parked on the shore. However, the vehicle belongs to a superintendent who, when he does not find it, stages its theft. Meanwhile, Vasia exposes priests in the church. As a result, the church is turned into a cinema, and the priest becomes a cinema technician. And finally, Vasia’s last deed is catching a criminal at home and denouncing him to the militia.

• Faust LopatinskiyDirector
• Oleksandr DovzhenkoDirector
• Oleksandr DovzhenkoWriter

• Vasyl LiudvynskyiVasya
• Yuri ChernyshovYurka, Vasya's brother
• Yurii ShumskyiVasya's uncle
• Natalya ChernyshyovaVasya's mother
• Mikhail SmolenskiyChairman of the Sheluhasindicate
• Anastasii SymonovBrewer
• Dmytro KapkaSupply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
• Vladimir UralskiyCook
• Stepan ShahaidaMitka Kutsiy, bandit
• Ksana ZapadnaiaSupply manager's girlfriend
• Lazar FrenkelSheluhasindicate employee
• Anton KlimenkoPriest