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Perekop

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.

Top Cast

  • Ivan Tverdokhlib

    Ivan Tverdokhlib

    Pauper

  • Oksana Podlesnaya

    Oksana Podlesnaya

    Pauper's wife

  • Vasyl Krasenko

    Vasyl Krasenko

    Kurkul (miser)

  • Heorhiy Astafyev

    Heorhiy Astafyev

    Kurkul's son

  • V. Piddubnyi

    V. Piddubnyi

    Kurkul's son

  • Stepan Shahaida

    Stepan Shahaida

    Comrade Artyom

  • T. Vagner

    T. Vagner

    (uncredited)

  • Stepan Vasyutinskiy

    Stepan Vasyutinskiy

    Worker (uncredited)

  • Ivan Malikov-Elvorti

    Ivan Malikov-Elvorti

    (uncredited)

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.

Rating

6.4 / 10
5 Reviews
1 Popular

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