Blown Up Days (1930)
The year 1929. A “shock worker” from a tractor plant visits a film studio premises and is furious to see fake stage designs for a kitsch production about a Soviet life. He refuses to help the crew with his tractor, but is happy to ask one of the cameramen to go with him to visit an actual Soviet village. There they witness the birth of the kolkhoz and the dekulakization of wealthy villagers. Then they are transported to the future, to the year 1932, when the first five-year plan is done and the commune-sovkhoz is established. Movies can move faster than time, but the pace of change in Soviet society is even faster than that. In the movie, the entrance gate of the Odesa film factory, where all of the indoors scenes were shot, can be seen. The outdoors scenes were filmed all over Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia (Kuban): at Kharkiv factories, in Ukrainian villages and in the 240 ha-sovkhoz “Gigant” in Rostov region, the latter representing the future after the five-year plan.
Director: Aleksandr Solovyov
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Mykola Nademskyi as Murugiy / Old man |
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Semen Svashenko as Hero of labour |
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Oleksii Kharlamov as Detsyuk, kulak |
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Ivan Tverdokhlib as Montetsuk, peasant |
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Vladimir Chuvelyov as Bidoga, middleman |
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Ivan Sizov as Kolkhoz worker |
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P. Kostenko as Kulak's supporter |
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G. Rostov as Priest |
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Oksana Podlesnaya as Peasant woman |
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Ivan Franko as Kobzar |
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T. Kochkina as Old peasant woman |
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Stepan Vasyutinskiy as Kapulenko, peasant |
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V. Komaretskyi as Priest in prologue |
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A. Belov as Kulak in prologue |
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Natalya Chernyshyova as Kulak's daughter |
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N. Kreminskiy as Renter |
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Elena Chernova as Woman worker |
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Irina Chuvelyova as Katya |
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Boris Zavelev as Camera operator |
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Anton Klimenko as |
| Writing | Stanislav Weiting-Radzinsky | Writer |
| Directing | Aleksandr Solovyov | Director |
| Camera | Boris Zavelev | Director of Photography |
| Art | Sergey Khudyakov | Production Design |
