Vasya, the Reformer

Vasya, the Reformer

1926 · ★ 7.0 · 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.

Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko · Written by Alexander Dovzhenko

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Vasyl Liudvynskyi Vasya
Yuri Chernyshov Yurka, Vasya's brother
Yurii Shumskyi Vasya's uncle
Natalya Chernyshyova Vasya's mother
Mikhail Smolenskiy Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate
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
Anton Klimenko Priest

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