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17 October 1930 (USA) morePlot:
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
Interesting visually and a fine example of that period's propaganda more (28 total)Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Stepan Shkurat | ... | Opanas (as S. Shkurat) | |
| Semyon Svashenko | ... | Vasili 'Basil' Opanas (as S. Svashenko) | |
| Yuliya Solntseva | ... | Vasili's sister (as Yu. Solntseva) | |
| Yelena Maksimova | ... | Natalya, Vasili's fiancee (as Ye. Maksimova) | |
| Nikolai Nademsky | ... | Semyon 'Simon' Opanas (as N. Nademsky) | |
| Ivan Franko | ... | Arkhip Whitehorse, Khoma's father (as I. Franko) | |
| Pyotr Masokha | ... | Khoma 'Thomas' Whitehorse (as P. Masokha) | |
| Vladimir Mikhajlov | ... | Village priest (as V. Mikhajlov) | |
| Pavel Petrik | ... | Young party-cell leader (as P. Petrik) | |
| P. Umanets | ... | Chairman of the village Farm Soviet | |
| Ye. Bondina | ... | Farm girl | |
| Luka Lyashenko | ... | Young Kulak (as L. Lyashenko) |
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75 min | USA:73 min (1991 Kino video)Country:
Soviet UnionColor:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Soviet censors made Aleksandr Dovzhenko eliminate a number of scenes from the film, including a shot of peasants urinating in a tractor radiator and a scene where a dead man's fiancée mourns him in the nude. moreFAQ
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A visually experimental film (even by today's standard) and a fine example of propaganda from that period. One has to remember that at the time, collective farms in Russia were still a bold social experiment (as was propaganda as a phenomenon for that matter), and it was not at all clear that it will end in failure. So the film's authors were not necessarily insincere or somehow oppressed by "Stalinist forces" to show it in a positive light. This may seem unusual for the westerners not accustomed to hearing of communism other than as a swear word. I hope that somebody undertakes to restore this film using modern digital technique, to remove all the flicker and uneven brightness, imagine how much more beautiful it could be. I have to mention also that English translation of the inter-titles is not accurate, at some points distorting their meaning. For example, when the arriving tractor stalls, the women shout "It stopped" and not "It's here"; later the party boss says "A tractor cannot stop" translated as "the tractor can't arrive" (or something), depriving the English-speaking audience of a subtle moment of satire in the film.