The Dam Is Broken (1928)
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.
- Released
- 1928-09-23
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 52 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Mikhail Kapchinsky, Dmytro Falkovskyi, Lazar Frenkel
Cast
- Heiri Emirzade as Vasyl
- Nina Li as Lesya
- Anna Agramova as Vasyl‘s mother
- V. Kolpashnikov as Lesya‘s father
- Yuriy Krestinskiy as Yurka, shepherd boy
- Nikolay Bukaev as Young hunter
- Anastasia Suvorina as Sorceress
- K. Mikhaylova as Young woman
- Heorhii Khorkov as Young peasant
- B. Goncharov as Priest
- Nikolai Panov as Pan Thadeus