Ukrainian agitprop film from 1929 that was banned and long forgotten until its rediscovery in the 1970s, imaginatively shot by the gifted cameraman Oleksii Pankratiev, whose panoramic long shots feature dynamic compositions. The background, barren field and bare sky, raise the agricultural subject matter to the level of an epic poem. Using innovative editing, Shpykovskyi transformed an incredibly simple plot into an avant-garde work. Created the same year as Earth (Zemlya), the film forms a paradoxically conceptual, ideological, and aesthetic pair with Dovzhenko’s movie.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Fedir Hamalii, Luka Lyashenko, Sofia Smirnova, Vladimir Uralskiy, Dmitriy Kapka
Crew: Oleksiy Pankratyev (Director of Photography), Volodymyr Yaroshenko (Writer), Solomon Zarytskyi (Art Direction), Mykola Shpykovskyi (Director)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: No Language
Studio: VUFKU
Runtime: 45 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Mar 04, 1930
IMDb: 6.1
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