Perekop (1930)

Perekop

1930

War

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Ivan Kavaleridze

Cast

Arkadiy Malskiy as Railroad worker (uncredited)

Heorhiy Astafyev as Kurkul's son

Ivan Malikov-Elvorti as (uncredited)

Ivan Tverdokhlib as Pauper

Oksana Podlesnaya as Pauper's wife

Stepan Shahaida as Comrade Artyom

Stepan Vasyutinskiy as Worker (uncredited)

T. Vagner as (uncredited)