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Vasya, the Reformer

1926 Directed by Faust Lopatinskiy

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.

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Vasyl Liudvynskyi

Vasyl Liudvynskyi

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Vasya

Yuri Chernyshov

Yuri Chernyshov

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Yurka, Vasya's brother

Yurii Shumskyi

Yurii Shumskyi

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Vasya's uncle

Natalya Chernyshyova

Natalya Chernyshyova

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Vasya's mother

Mikhail Smolenskiy

Mikhail Smolenskiy

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Chairman of the Sheluhasindicate

Anastasii Symonov

Anastasii Symonov

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Brewer

Dmytro Karpa

Dmytro Karpa

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Supply manager of the Sheluhasindicate

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