M O V I E
Vasya, the Reformer [292176]
Released: 1926-01-02
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Revenue: unknown
Cast: 15
Popularity: 0.0214
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Synopsis : 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.
Vasyl Liudvynskyi
Yuri Chernyshov
Yury Shumsky
Natalya Chernyshyo
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Anastasiy Simonov
Dmitriy Kapka
Vladimir Uralskiy
Stepan Shahaida
Ksana Zapadnaia
Lazar Frenkel
Anton Klimenko
Aleksandr Istomin
Komarova
N. Rudakov

Director

Oleksandr Dovzhenk