In the Days of Struggle

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.

Cast

A

Andrei Gorchilin

Blacksmith

Nina Shaternikova

Blacksmith's Daughter

Ivan Kapralov

Polish officer

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Red Army Commander

F

Feofan Shipulinsky

Polish landowner

N

Nikolay Vishnyak

Bandit

A

Anna Chekulaeva

Jewish Woman

S

Sergei Shishko

Bandura Player