Overview

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.

Top Cast

Vasyl Liudvynskyi

Vasya

Y

Yuri Chernyshov

Yurka, Vasya's brother

Yurii Shumskyi

Vasya's uncle

N

Natalya Chernyshyova

Vasya's mother

M

Mikhail Smolenskiy

Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate

A

Anastasii Symonov

Brewer

Dmytro Kapka

Supply manager of the Sheluhasindicate

Vladimir Uralskiy

Cook

Stepan Shahaida

Mitka Kutsiy, bandit

Ksana Zapadnaia

Supply manager's girlfriend

Lazar Frenkel

Sheluhasindicate employee

A

Anton Klimenko

Priest