

Vasya, the Reformer
1926 Directed by Faust LopatinskiyLost 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.

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 Karpa
....................................................Supply manager of the Sheluhasindicate
Director
...........................................................Faust Lopatinskiy
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Writer
...........................................................Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Director of Photography
...........................................................Daniil Demutsky
Joseph Rona
Production Design
...........................................................Ivan Suvorov
Production Companies
...................................................VUFKU
Production Countries
........................................................Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
....................................................No Language
Український
Genres
....................................................Comedy
Drama
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