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Basic Info
Release: November 03, 1930

Blown Up Days

1930
Overview

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. In the movie, the entrance gate of the Odesa film factory, where all of the indoors scenes were shot, can be seen. The outdoors scenes were filmed all over Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia (Kuban): at Kharkiv factories, in Ukrainian villages and in the 240 ha-sovkhoz “Gigant” in Rostov region, the latter representing the future after the five-year plan.

Genres
Drama
Production Countries
  • Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
  • No Language xx

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Cast
Mykola Nademskyi
Mykola Nademskyi
Murugiy / Old man
Semen Svashenko
Semen Svashenko
Hero of labour
Oleksii Kharlamov
Detsyuk, kulak
Ivan Tverdokhlib
Ivan Tverdokhlib
Montetsuk, peasant
Vladimir Chuvelyov
Bidoga, middleman
Ivan Sizov
Kolkhoz worker
P. Kostenko
Kulak's supporter
G. Rostov
Priest
Oksana Podlesnaya
Oksana Podlesnaya
Peasant woman
Ivan Franko
Kobzar
T. Kochkina
Old peasant woman
Stepan Vasyutinskiy
Kapulenko, peasant
Crew
Stanislav Weiting-Radzinsky
Writer
Aleksandr Solovyov
Director
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