In the Days of Struggle

An agit-film about the struggle of Ukrainian peasants against the White Poles. A young woman, the daughter of a blacksmith taken prisoner by the White Poles, and a Red commander organise a partisan unit. One scene depicts the capture of a Polish landowner attempting to elude capture. He had been hiding from the Red Army soldiers in a barrel. The peasants nailed the barrel shut and, having inscribed the words: ‘To Warsaw – to Mr Piłsudski’, threw it into the Dnieper. Lost film.

Cast

Andrei Gorchilin Blacksmith Nina Shaternikova Blacksmith's Daughter Ivan Kapralov Polish officer Vsevolod Pudovkin Red Army Commander Feofan Shipulinsky Polish landowner Nikolay Vishnyak Bandit Anna Chekulaeva Jewish Woman Sergei Shishko Bandura Player

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