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.
Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko, Faust Lopatinskiy
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Cast

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
Aleksandr Istomin
Drunkard
Komarova
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