Vasya, the Reformer

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Vasya, the Reformer (1926)

Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, Faust Lopatinskiy

Comedy, Drama

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.

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Cast

Vasyl Liudvynskyi Vasya
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Yuri Chernyshov Yurka, Vasya's brother Yurii Shumskyi Vasya's uncle
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Natalya Chernyshyova Vasya's mother
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Mikhail Smolenskiy Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate
A
Anastasii Symonov Brewer Dmytro Kapka Supply manager of the Sheluhasindicate Vladimir Uralskiy Cook Stepan Shahaida Mitka Kutsiy, bandit Ksana Zapadnaia Supply manager's girlfriend Lazar Frenkel Sheluhasindicate employee
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Anton Klimenko Priest

Crew

Director
Alexander Dovzhenko, Faust Lopatinskiy
Writer
Alexander Dovzhenko
Director of Photography
Joseph Rona, Danylo Demutsky

Details

Original title
Вася-реформатор
Release date
1926-01-02
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Original language
UK
Spoken languages
No Language, Ukrainian
Countries
Soviet Union
Production
VUFKU