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Vasya, the Reformer

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Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, Faust Lopatinskiy

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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.Read moreLess

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.

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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.

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Cast & crew

Yuri Chernyshov
Yuri Chernyshov
Yurka, Vasya's brother
Yurii ShumskyiYurii ShumskyiVasya's uncle
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate
Dmytro KapkaDmytro KapkaSupply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
Stepan ShahaidaStepan ShahaidaMitka Kutsiy, bandit
Ksana ZapadnaiaKsana ZapadnaiaSupply manager's girlfriend
Lazar FrenkelLazar FrenkelSheluhasindicate employee
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Director of Photography
Joseph Rona
Director of Photography
Danylo Demutsky