Downpour

Downpour (1929)

History

The lost film about the peasant rebellion of the 18th century in Ukraine, led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta. The history of the haydamak movement became a trigger for authors to have experiments in the field of film language: shooting against the background of black velvet, focus on the static character of the picture, the sculptural nature of composition mise-en-scène solutions, replacement of dramatic collisions with cinema engravings depicting the historical past.

Director: Ivan Kavaleridze

Casts

	Ivan Marianenko as Honta
	M. Petlyashenko as Zalizniak
	Stepan Shkurat as peasant Ivan
	L. Sharov as Ivan's son
	Severyn Pankivskyi as Jesuit Bishop
	V. Piddubnyi as prince Jeremi Wiśniowiecki
	Viktor Komar as Stanislav-Avgust

Crew