Vasya reformator
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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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Shot by Daniil DemutskyDesigned by Ivan Suvorov
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15 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Vasili Lyudvinsky
as Vasya - pioneer
Yuri Chernyshov
as Yurka - Vasya's brother
Yuri Shumsky
as Pylyp Sotka, Vasia's uncle
Natalya Chernysheva
as Vasia's mother
Dmitriy Kapka
as Lushpaisyndykat superintendent
Mikhail Smolenskiy
as Chairman of the Sheluhasindikata
Lazar Frenkel
as Shelukhasindikat employee
Aleksandr Istomin
as Drunk
Anton Klimenko
as Priest
Komarova
as Typist
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