The year 1929. A “shock worker” from a tractor plant visits a film studio premises and is furious to see fake stage designs for a kitsch production about a Soviet life. He refuses to help the crew with his tractor, but is happy to ask one of the cameramen to go with him to visit an actual Soviet village. There they witness the birth of the kolkhoz and the dekulakization of wealthy villagers. Then they are transported to the future, to the year 1932, when the first five-year plan is done and the commune-sovkhoz is established. Movies can move faster than time, but the pace of change in Soviet society is even faster than that.
Directed by Aleksandr Solovyov
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Cast
Mykola Nademskyi
Murugiy / Old man
Semyon Svashenko
Hero of labour
Oleksii Kharlamov
Detsyuk, kulak
Ivan Tverdokhlib
Montetsuk, peasant
Vladimir Chuvelyov
Bidoga, middleman
Ivan Sizov
Kolkhoz worker
P. Kostenko
Kulak's supporter
G. Rostov
Priest
Oksana Podlesnaya
Peasant woman
Ivan Franko
Kobzar
T. Kochkina
Old peasant woman
Stepan Vasyutinskiy
Kapulenko, peasant
V. Komaretskyi
Priest in prologue
A. Belov
Kulak in prologue
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