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Vasya, the Reformer

70.00% | January 2, 1926 | Comedy, Drama

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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Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Director
Faust Lopatinskiy
Director
Joseph Rona
Director of Photography
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Cast

Yuri Chernyshov
Yuri Chernyshov
Yurka, Vasya's brother
Yury Shumsky
Yury Shumsky
Vasya's uncle
Natalya Chernyshyova
Natalya Chernyshyova
Vasya's mother
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Mikhail Smolenskiy
Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate

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