Vasya, the Reformer (1926)
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.
- Released
- 1926-01-02
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Faust Lopatinskiy, Alexander Dovzhenko
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 3 votes
Cast
- Vasyl Liudvynskyi as Vasya
- Yuri Chernyshov as Yurka, Vasya's brother
- Yurii Shumskyi as Vasya's uncle
- Natalya Chernyshyova as Vasya's mother
- Mikhail Smolenskiy as Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate
- Anastasii Symonov as Brewer
- Dmytro Kapka as Supply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
- Vladimir Uralskiy as Cook
- Stepan Shahaida as Mitka Kutsiy, bandit
- Ksana Zapadnaia as Supply manager's girlfriend
- Lazar Frenkel as Sheluhasindicate employee
- Anton Klimenko as Priest