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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