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Bread

Overview

Ukrainian agitprop film from 1929 that was banned and long forgotten until its rediscovery in the 1970s, imaginatively shot by the gifted cameraman Oleksii Pankratiev, whose panoramic long shots feature dynamic compositions. The background, barren field and bare sky, raise the agricultural subject matter to the level of an epic poem. Using innovative editing, Shpykovskyi transformed an incredibly simple plot into an avant-garde work. Created the same year as Earth (Zemlya), the film forms a paradoxically conceptual, ideological, and aesthetic pair with Dovzhenko’s movie.

RATING

4.89

DIRECTOR

Mykola Shpykovskyi

COUNTRIE

Soviet Union

RELEASE DATE

1930

TIME

0h 45m

GENRE

Drama

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Fedir Hamalii‌

Fedir Hamalii

Kulak

Luka Lyashenko‌

Luka Lyashenko

Demobilized Red Army Soldier

Sofia Smirnova‌

Sofia Smirnova

Peasant Girl

Vladimir Uralskiy‌

Vladimir Uralskiy

Zakhar

Дмитрий Капка‌

Дмитрий Капка

Grandfather

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