Vasya, the Reformer 1926
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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
- Runtime: 0 minutes
- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Stars: Yuri Chernyshov, Dmitriy Kapka, Vasyl Liudvynskyi
- Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Favst Lopatynskyi, Joseph Rona, Daniil Demutsky
