Vasya, the Reformer

Vasya, the Reformer (1926)

ComedyDrama

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.

Directors: Faust Lopatinskiy, Oleksandr Dovzhenko.

Casts

	Vasyl Liudvynskyi as Vasya
	Yuri Chernyshov as Yurka, Vasya's brother
	Yurii Shumskyi as Vasya's uncle
	Natalya Chernyshyova as Vasya's mother
	Mikhail Smolenskiy as Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate
	Anastasii Symonov as Brewer
	Dmytro Kapka as Supply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
	Vladimir Uralskiy as Cook
	Stepan Shahaida as Mitka Kutsiy, bandit
	Ksana Zapadnaia as Supply manager's girlfriend
	Lazar Frenkel as Sheluhasindicate employee
	Anton Klimenko as Priest
	Aleksandr Istomin as Drunkard
	Komarova as Typist
	N. Rudakov as (uncredited)

Crew