The Dam Is Broken (1928)
The film is set in one of the regions of Western Ukraine in the 1920s. A poor peasant, Vasyl, openly opposes the arbitrariness of the lord's authorities. While hunting in the lord's forest, he is captured by soldiers and imprisoned in a dungeon. His beloved girl Lesia, with the help of the villagers, opens the dam, and water begins to flood the manor. Amid the commotion, Vasyl escapes from his captivity.
Director:
Mikhail Kapchinsky
Writers:
Dmytro Falkovskyi, Lazar Frenkel.
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Heiri Emirzade as Vasyl |
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Nina Li as Lesya |
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Anna Agramova as Vasyl‘s mother |
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V. Kolpashnikov as Lesya‘s father |
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Yuriy Krestinskiy as Yurka, shepherd boy |
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Nikolay Bukaev as Young hunter |
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Anastasia Suvorina as Sorceress |
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K. Mikhaylova as Young woman |
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Heorhii Khorkov as Young peasant |
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B. Goncharov as Priest |
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Nikolai Panov as Pan Thadeus |
| Directing | Mikhail Kapchinsky | Director |
| Writing | Dmytro Falkovskyi | Screenplay |
| Writing | Lazar Frenkel | Screenplay |
| Camera | Yan Krayevskyi | Director of Photography |
| Art | Solomon Zarytskyi | Production Design |
| Directing | Lyudmila Snezhinskaya | Co-Director |
