Perekop

Directed by Ivan Kavaleridze

With Ivan Tverdokhlib, Oksana Podlesnaya, Vasyl Krasenko, Heorhiy Astafyev and V. Piddubnyi

This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.