Bread

Synopsis

Ukrainian agitprop film from 1929 that was banned and long forgotten until its rediscovery in the 1970s, imaginatively shot by the gifted cameraman Oleksii Pankratiev, whose panoramic long shots feature dynamic compositions. The background, barren field and bare sky, raise the agricultural subject matter to the level of an epic poem. Using innovative editing, Shpykovskyi transformed an incredibly simple plot into an avant-garde work. Created the same year as Earth (Zemlya), the film forms a paradoxically conceptual, ideological, and aesthetic pair with Dovzhenko’s movie.

Main Cast

Fedir Hamalii

Kulak

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Luka Lyashenko

Demobilized Red Army Soldier

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Sofia Smirnova

Peasant Girl

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Vladimir Uralskiy

Zakhar

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Dmytro Kapka

Grandfather

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Mykola Shpykovskyi
Camera	Director of Photography	Oleksiy Pankratyev
Art	Art Direction	Solomon Zarytskyi
Writing	Writer	Volodymyr Yaroshenko
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