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The Dam Is Broken

Mikhail Kapchinsky

1928 • 52m

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 capt...

The Dam Is Broken

Cast

Heiri Emirzade

Heiri EmirzadeVasyl

Nina Li

Anna AgramovaVasyl‘s mother

V. KolpashnikovLesya‘s father

Yuriy KrestinskiyYurka, shepherd boy

Nikolay BukaevYoung hunter

Anastasia SuvorinaSorceress

K. MikhaylovaYoung woman

Heorhii KhorkovYoung peasant

B. GoncharovPriest

Nikolai Panov

Nikolai PanovPan Thadeus

Crew

Lazar Frenkel

Lazar FrenkelScreenplay