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.
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Cast
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Ivan Tverdokhlib
Pauper
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Ivan Kavaleridze
Nikolai Topchiy
Vasyl Krasenko
Kurkul (miser)
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Vasiliy Krasenko
Kulak
Hryhorii Dovzhenko
Heorhiy Astafyev
Kurkul's son
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Kurkul's son
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Ivan
Ivan Kavaleridze Director · Pavel Tolstyakov Composer Mykola Topchii Cinematographer
First release November 3, 1930 · Produced in Russia · Original title Перекоп
Production
VUFKU
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Russia
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Languages
Original title
Перекоп
Original language
Ukrainian
Spoken on screen
Ukrainian
Release dates
Russia · November 3, 1930
Kyiv premiere
Russia · November 21, 1930
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
July 7, 2015 · restored version Arsenal Cinema
Russia
November 3, 1930 · Premiere · Kyiv premiere
United Kingdom
April 27, 2012 · restored version
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