Khlib (1929)
Also known as Bread
1929 · Feature film · 45 min · dir. Mykola Shpykovskyi
- Drama
Synopsis
A demobilized Red Army soldier returns to his village. Inspired by the spirit of collectivism, he plows a field so that the kulak's portion now belongs to the community, and sows it with grain confiscated from the 'philistines'. His father, a man of traditional world outlook, lives in a pantheistic world of the Ukrainian ethos, where sin has a physical dimension. He does not believe that the stolen grain will sprout on the stolen land. When the grain finally sprouts, the old man admits that his…
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Details
- Director
- Mykola Shpykovskyi
- Writer
- Volodymyr Yaroshenko
- Cinematography
- Oleksiy Pankratyev
- Studio
- VUFKU
- Released
- 1929-10-01
- Original title
- Хліб
- Running time
- 45 minutes
Cast & crew
Mykola Shpykovskyi Director- Fedir Hamalii
- Dmitriy Kapka
- Luka Lyashenko