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.
Ivan Kavaleridze
Director, Writer
Ivan Tverdokhlib
Pauper
Oksana Podlesnaya
Pauper's wife
Vasyl Krasenko
Kurkul (miser)
Heorhiy Astafyev
Kurkul's son
V. Piddubnyi
Kurkul's son
Stepan Shahaida
Comrade Artyom
T. Vagner
(uncredited)
Stepan Vasyutinskiy
Worker (uncredited)
Ivan Malikov-Elvorti
(uncredited)
Jacknife63%
Bunker68%
The War Below67%
The War on Democracy75%
Operation Overlord64%
Boudica58%
Hell Hath No Fury64%
Behold a Pale Horse60%
The Eastern Front66%
Father Soldier Son65%
Cast a Giant Shadow63%
Wolf Hound65%
Soldiers of the Damned62%
Jarhead: Law of Return65%
Крути 191866%
The Beast70%
Men in War66%
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?58%
Waiting for Anya62%
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing66%
