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.
- Created by
- Faust LopatinskiyOleksandr Dovzhenko
- Origin
- SU
- TMDB rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 3 votes
Cast
Vasyl LiudvynskyiVasya- Yuri ChernyshovYurka, Vasya's brother
Yurii ShumskyiVasya's uncle- Natalya ChernyshyovaVasya's mother
- Mikhail SmolenskiyChairman of the Sheluhasindicate
- Anastasii SymonovBrewer
Dmytro KapkaSupply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
Vladimir UralskiyCook
Stepan ShahaidaMitka Kutsiy, bandit
Ksana ZapadnaiaSupply manager's girlfriend