Perekop (1930)
This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.
Director: Ivan Kavaleridze
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Ivan Tverdokhlib as Pauper |
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Oksana Podlesnaya as Pauper's wife |
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Vasyl Krasenko as Kurkul (miser) |
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Heorhiy Astafyev as Kurkul's son |
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V. Piddubnyi as Kurkul's son |
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Stepan Shahaida as Comrade Artyom |
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T. Vagner as (uncredited) |
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Stepan Vasyutinskiy as Worker (uncredited) |
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Ivan Malikov-Elvorti as (uncredited) |
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Arkadiy Malskiy as Railroad worker (uncredited) |
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Petro Masokha as (uncredited) |
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Serhii Minin as Red army commander (uncredited) |
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Kateryna Osmialovska as Bourgeois (uncredited) |
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Aleksandr Pereguda as (uncredited) |
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Semen Svashenko as Kalmyk soldier (uncredited) |
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Ivan Sizov as Worker (uncredited) |
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Olga Emmanuel as Naked woman (uncredited) |
| Camera | Mykola Topchii | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Ivan Kavaleridze | Director |
| Sound | Pavel Tolstyakov | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Ivan Kavaleridze | Writer |
| Art | Grigoriy Dovzhenko | Production Design |
