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Khlib (original title)
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A demobilized Red Army soldier returns to his village. Inspired by the spirit of collectivism, he plows a field so that the kulak's portion now belongs to the community, and sows it with grain confiscated from the 'philistines'. His... See more »
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Fedir Hamalii ...
Kulak
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Grandfather (as Dmytro Kapka)
Luka Lyashenko ...
Demobilized Red Army Soldier
Sofia Smirnova ...
Peasant Girl
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Zakhar

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Mykola Shpykovskyi ... (as Nikolai Shpikovsky)

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Viktor Yaroshenko ... ()

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Aleksei Pankratyev ... (as A. Pankratiev)

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Solomon Zaritsky ... (as S. Zaritskiy)

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Luka Lyashenko ... production assistant
M. Piasetskyi ... production assistant

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Plot Summary

A demobilized Red Army soldier returns to his village. Inspired by the spirit of collectivism, he plows a field so that the kulak's portion now belongs to the community, and sows it with grain confiscated from the 'philistines'. His father, a man of traditional world outlook, lives in a pantheistic world of the Ukrainian ethos, where sin has a physical dimension. He does not believe that the stolen grain will sprout on the stolen land. When the grain finally sprouts, the old man admits that his son was right; for the sake of building a new world, the old laws of the universe should be broken. Written by Ivan Kozlenko

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Also Known As
  • Хліб (Soviet Union, Ukrainian title)
  • Тисяча дев'ятсот двадцятий рік (Soviet Union, Ukrainian title)
  • Хлеб (Soviet Union, Russian title)
  • Bread (World-wide, English title)
  • The Year Nineteen Twenty (World-wide, English title)
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  • 45 min
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Trivia Completed in October 1929, "Khlib" (Bread) was released in March 1930, in Soviet Ukraine. After 7 March 1930, the film was censored as politically incorrect and soon banned for screening, it was never released in other republics of Soviet Union. Then under the new title "Tysyacha devyatsot dvadtsyatyy rik" (The Year Nineteen Twenty), the film was re-edited to follow the line of Soviet censors, but this version was finally banned on 13 February 1931 and never released. See more »
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