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8/9/1926
A remote Ukrainian village. A poor peasant, Hryhorii Malynovskyi, wants to expose those who oppose the revolutionary changes in the village - the rich, led by Konstantin Popandopul, who have made their way into the village council and are ruling there. Since poor peasants enjoy certain privileges, the rich in the village council decide to exclude Grigory from the list of poor people. Outraged, Hryhorii goes to the city and writes a letter to the newspaper. Malynovskyi is murdered. The investigator uncovers the murder and the thieves are brought to justice. The film is based on the high-profile trial of the murder of the pro-Bolshevik rural journalist Hryhorii Malynovskyi in the village of Dymivka (later renamed Malynivka in honor of Malynovskyi in Odesa province, now Mykolaiv region), promoted by Pravda newspaper and mentioned by Stalin.
Pyotr Matveyenko
as Grigoriy Malinovskiy, village reporter
A. Olenich-Alekseyeva
as Dunya, Grigoriy's wife
V. Piddubnyi
as Andrey, Grigoriy's brother
Aleksandr Chuverov
as Konstantin Popandopulo, kulak
Viktor Viktorov-Alekseyev
as Zhuravskiy
Arkadiy Malskiy
as Miron Simonovich, representative of the village council
Aleksandr Sashin
as Tulyupa, kulak
I. Doroshenko
as Katya Popandopulo
Matviy Lyarov
as Stovbenko-Sorocha, kulak
Osip Merlatti
as Pustolyata, chairman of the agriculture union
V. Rozanov
as Ivanov
A. Belov
as Kulak
Anastasiy Simonov
as Kulak
Teodor Brainin
as Prosecutor
Oksana Podlesnaya
as Peasant
Anton Klimenko
as Policeman
Vasyliy Vasylenko
as Veselovskiy
Solomon Gorvits
as Dobrovolskiy
Dmitri Fedorovskiy
as Peasant
Konstantin Garin
as Peasant
Vladimir Uralskiy
as Peasant
Konstantin Milyutin-Savich
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti