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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Ivan TverdokhlibPauper
Oksana PodlesnayaPauper's wife
Vasyl KrasenkoKurkul (miser)
V. PiddubnyiKurkul's son
Stepan ShahaidaComrade Artyom
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti(uncredited)
Petro Masokha(uncredited)
Serhii MininRed army commander (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Mykola Topchii
- Director
- Ivan Kavaleridze
- Original Music Composer
- Pavel Tolstyakov
- Writer
- Ivan Kavaleridze