50 minutes
11/21/1930
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.
Ivan Tverdokhlib
as Pauper
Oksana Podlesnaya
as Pauper's wife
Vasyl Krasenko
as Kurkul (miser)
Heorhiy Astafyev
as Kurkul's son
V. Piddubnyi
as Kurkul's son
Stepan Shahaida
as Comrade Artyom
T. Vagner
as (uncredited)
Stepan Vasyutinskiy
as Worker (uncredited)
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti
as (uncredited)
Arkadiy Malskiy
as Railroad worker (uncredited)
Petro Masokha
as (uncredited)
Serhii Minin
as Red army commander (uncredited)
Ekaterina Osmyalovskaya
as Bourgeois (uncredited)
Aleksandr Pereguda
as (uncredited)
Semen Svashenko
as Kalmyk soldier (uncredited)
Ivan Sizov
as Worker (uncredited)
Olga Emmanuel
as Naked woman (uncredited)