Vasya, the Reformer
1926 · N/A
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Alexander Dovzhenko
,
Faust Lopatinskiy
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Alexander Dovzhenko Director
- Faust Lopatinskiy Director
- Vasyl Liudvynskyi as Vasya
- Yuri Chernyshov as Yurka, Vasya's brother
- Dmytro Kapka as Supply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
- Yurii Shumskyi as Vasya's uncle
- Natalya Chernyshyova as Vasya's mother
- Mikhail Smolenskiy as Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate
- Anastasii Symonov as Brewer
- Vladimir Uralskiy Cast
- Stepan Shahaida Cast
- Ksana Zapadnaia Cast
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