Vasya, the Reformer
1926, Ukrainian. Directed by Faust Lopatinskiy & Alexander Dovzhenko.
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.
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- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Ukrainian
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Cast & crew
- Faust LopatinskiyDirector
- Alexander DovzhenkoDirector
- Vasyl LiudvynskyiVasya
- Yuri ChernyshovYurka, Vasya's brother
- Yurii ShumskyiVasya's uncle
- Natalya ChernyshyovaVasya's mother
- Mikhail SmolenskiyChairman of the Sheluhasindicate
- Anastasii SymonovBrewer
- Dmytro KapkaSupply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
- Vladimir UralskiyCook
- Stepan ShahaidaMitka Kutsiy, bandit
- Ksana ZapadnaiaSupply manager's girlfriend
- Lazar FrenkelSheluhasindicate employee
- Anton KlimenkoPriest
Details
- Released
- 2 January 1926
- Original title
- Вася-реформатор
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Alexander Dovzhenko
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Vasya, the Reformer (1926) was directed by Faust Lopatinskiy and Alexander Dovzhenko and stars Vasyl Liudvynskyi, Yuri Chernyshov, Yurii Shumskyi.