Vasya, the Reformer

01/02/1926

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0hr 0min

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Comedy

,Drama

STORY

Lost film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (his first film) and Favst Lopatynskyi. It is a satire of the NEP period. Vasia, the son of a factory’s worker, is attracted by the romance of adventures. And he goes to look for them. He saves a drowning drunkard who tries to beat him. Vasia escapes from him in a vehicle parked on the shore. However, the vehicle belongs to a superintendent who, when he does not find it, stages its theft. Meanwhile, Vasia exposes priests in the church. As a result, the church is turned into a cinema, and the priest becomes a cinema technician. And finally, Vasia’s last deed is catching a criminal at home and denouncing him to the militia.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Yuri Chernyshov
  • Dmitriy Kapka
  • Vasyl Liudvynskyi
  • Lazar Frenkel

    Directors

  • Oleksandr Dovzhenko
  • Favst Lopatynskyi

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • VUFKU

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • No Language
  • Ukrainian