Perekop (1930)
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.
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)
Semyon Svashenko
Kalmyk soldier (uncredited)Recommendations
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