Overview

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.

Genres

Cast

Ivan Tverdokhlib

Pauper

Oksana Podlesnaya

Pauper's wife

Vasyl Krasenko

Kurkul (miser)

V. Piddubnyi

Kurkul's son

Stepan Shahaida

Comrade Artyom

Ivan Malikov-Elvorti

(uncredited)

Petro Masokha

(uncredited)

Serhii Minin

Red army commander (uncredited)

Kateryna Osmialovska

Bourgeois (uncredited)

Aleksandr Pereguda

(uncredited)

Semen Svashenko

Kalmyk soldier (uncredited)