The Dam Is Broken (1928)

52 min · Soviet Union · Dir. Mikhail Kapchinsky

The film is set in one of the regions of Western Ukraine in the 1920s. A poor peasant, Vasyl, openly opposes the arbitrariness of the lord's authorities. While hunting in the lord's forest, he is captured by soldiers and imprisoned in a dungeon. His beloved girl Lesia, with the help of the villagers, opens the dam, and water begins to flood the manor. Amid the commotion, Vasyl escapes from his captivity.

Cast

Heiri Emirzade

Vasyl

Nina Li

Lesya

Anna Agramova

Vasyl‘s mother

V. Kolpashnikov

Lesya‘s father

Yuriy Krestinskiy

Yurka, shepherd boy

Nikolay Bukaev

Young hunter

Anastasia Suvorina

Sorceress

K. Mikhaylova

Young woman

Heorhii Khorkov

Young peasant

B. Goncharov

Priest

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