Bread

Bread

45 mins | Drama | March 4, 1930

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.

Bread

45 mins | Drama | March 4, 1930

Bread
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration)
Original title Хліб
Directors Mykola Shpykovskyi
Writers Volodymyr Yaroshenko

Cast

Fedir Hamalii

as Kulak

Dmytro Kapka

as Grandfather

Luka Lyashenko

as Demobilized Red Army Soldier

Sofia Smirnova

as Peasant Girl

Vladimir Uralsky

as Zakhar