After the critical lambasting of his masterpiece Earth, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation.
Based on the Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi’s novel. At the distillery farmers begin to strike. Local rich men without punitive detachment begin reprisals from rebels. Punitive detachment of dragoons, who called from the city, only completes the massacre.
A propaganda piece. On the way home to his wife, a man meets a colleague. Fascinated by the stories about the plant, he decides to get off the train and help the company overcome all extreme situations, prevent the plant from stopping and overfulfill the plan. On January 29, 1931, the Zhovten cinema in Kyiv was first opened with this film.
