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In the Days of Struggle

0.0 0 mins Drama   1920
VGIK   VFKO  
Director(s): Ivane Perestiani

Release Date: 01 Tue, Jun 1920

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.

Casts of In the Days of Struggle

Andrei Gorchilin

as Blacksmith

Nina Shaternikova

as Blacksmith's Daughter

Ivan Kapralov

as Polish officer

Vsevolod Pudovkin

as Red Army Commander

Feofan Shipulinsky

as Polish landowner

Nikolay Vishnyak

as Bandit

Anna Chekulaeva

as Jewish Woman

Sergei Shishko

as Bandura Player

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