Vasya, the Reformer (1926)
Вася-реформатор
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.
- Date of release
- 1926-01-02
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (3)
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Faust Lopatinskiy, Alexander Dovzhenko
Casting
- 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
Recommended
- SubUrbia 1997 · ★ 6.2
- Landline 2017 · ★ 6.2
- CQ 2001 · ★ 5.9
- Family Weekend 2013 · ★ 6.3
- Somewhere in Queens 2023 · ★ 6.3
- Hooking Up 2020 · ★ 6.3
- On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 2024 · ★ 7.5
- The House of Tomorrow 2019 · ★ 6.8
- Don't Think Twice 2016 · ★ 6.4
- Wild Oats 2016 · ★ 6.1
- Tyler Perry's Madea on the Run - The Play 2017 · ★ 7.5
- Lady Windermere's Fan 1925 · ★ 6.9