Perekop backdrop

Perekop

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.

Release Date: November 21, 1930

Status: Released

Genres:

War

Cast

Ivan Tverdokhlib

Ivan Tverdokhlib

Pauper

Oksana Podlesnaya

Oksana Podlesnaya

Pauper's wife

Vasyl Krasenko

Vasyl Krasenko

Kurkul (miser)

Heorhiy Astafyev

Kurkul's son

V. Piddubnyi

V. Piddubnyi

Kurkul's son

Stepan Shahaida

Stepan Shahaida

Comrade Artyom

T. Vagner

(uncredited)

Stepan Vasyutinskiy

Worker (uncredited)

Ivan Malikov-Elvorti

Ivan Malikov-Elvorti

(uncredited)

Arkadiy Malskiy

Railroad worker (uncredited)

Petro Masokha

Petro Masokha

(uncredited)

Serhii Minin

Serhii Minin

Red army commander (uncredited)