In the Days of Struggle

(1920)

Genres: Drama

Year: 1920

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Иван Перестиани

Cast: Андрей Горчилин, Нина Шатерникова, Иван Капралов, Всеволод Пудовкин, Феофан Шипулинский, Николай Вишняк, Анна Чекулаева, Сергей Шишко

Plot

An agit-film about the struggle of Ukrainian peasants against the White Poles. A young woman, the daughter of a blacksmith taken prisoner by the White Poles, and a Red commander organise a partisan unit. One scene depicts the capture of a Polish landowner attempting to elude capture. He had been hiding from the Red Army soldiers in a barrel. The peasants nailed the barrel shut and, having inscribed the words: ‘To Warsaw – to Mr Piłsudski’, threw it into the Dnieper. Lost film.