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The Dam Is Broken (1928)
Directed by Mikhail Kapchinsky
Drama · 52m
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.
Cast
Heiri Emirzade
Vasyl
Nina Li
Lesya
A
Anna Agramova
Vasyl‘s mother
V
V. Kolpashnikov
Lesya‘s father
Y
Yuriy Krestinskiy
Yurka, shepherd boy
N
Nikolay Bukaev
Young hunter
A
Anastasia Suvorina
Sorceress
K
K. Mikhaylova
Young woman
H
Heorhii Khorkov
Young peasant
B
B. Goncharov
Priest
Nikolai Panov
Pan Thadeus
Crew
- Director
- Mikhail Kapchinsky
- Screenplay
- Dmytro Falkovskyi, Lazar Frenkel
- Director of Photography
- Yan Krayevskyi
Details
- Original title
- Греблю прорвало
- Release date
- 1928-09-23
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- UK
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- VUFKU