Movie

In the Days of Struggle

1920 Released

Drama

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

A Andrei Gorchilin Blacksmith Nina Shaternikova Blacksmith's Daughter Ivan Kapralov Polish officer Vsevolod Pudovkin Red Army Commander F Feofan Shipulinsky Polish landowner N Nikolay Vishnyak Bandit