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- A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.
- This documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.
- In Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, almost unknown today. Pictures of wakening city, its resurging life resonate with lyrical views of reviving nature. Kaufman's attentive camera dwells deliberately on smiling faces of children, lyrically depicting a declaration of love to Kyiv. In In Spring, Kaufman used the method of «hidden camera» for the first time.
- Jean, the hairdresser, is flabbergasted: what is that baby his girlfriend Lisa has put in his arms out of the blue? The fruit of love? Out of the question. From that moment on, the reluctant father has but one thought in his head: he must get rid of the cumbersome 'article'. And, take his word for it, all the ways are good.
- An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering left off goods on Andriyivskyi descent in Kyiv, he goes on a journey with a camel, which somehow had strayed to his house. In the midway he is stopped by the Red Army: the camel gets confiscated for the needs of revolution, and Apollon appears in the disposal of the Bolshevik commissar. Zealous and cunning, Apollon quickly takes lead of the local commissariat. But the ingrained thirst for a profit once again puts his life in danger.
- Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his confrontational activities. The two fall in love but meet a violent end when the revolutionaries, led by Elka's father, destroy the palace.
- 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.
- During the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the family's valuables, buried in the garden. During the chaotic escape to the station the landlord's son gets separated and returns to the estate, where Anton hides him in his tiny room in the attic. In the evening, the mansion is occupied by Bolsheviks led by Anton's son, Andrii. Anton doesn't share his son's political ideas and restrains himself for showing his love for him. Accidentally the young master witnesses Andrii finding the treasures hidden in the garden. When the White Army returns to the city the following day, the landlord's son gives Andrii away to counterintelligence, and Andrii is executed as a Bolshevik agent. In despair, Anton sets fire to the estate, along with the partying White Army generals.
- About the struggle of Soviet people against spies and saboteurs. - At the construction of a new power plant, a former White Guard, Poloz, appears on the site under the guise of a hunter. His goal is to blow up the power plant. And he will not stop at stealing the little son of his ex-wife Katya .
- Set in Odessa at the end of the Civil War when the town is occupied by the Whites. The night coachman, fifty-year-old Gordi Yaroshchuk, lives with his daughter Kate who gets involved with a Bolshevik and revolutionary.
- The violinist Leva Ratkovich loved the poor girl Rachel, but her father did not allow her to marry a "beggar". Making sure that in tsarist Russia he could not achieve recognition, Leva decided to emigrate. After wandering, he falls into the hands of an impressionario, who made him a celebrity. On tour, Leva met his Rachel, who was also forced to emigrate. The Wandering Stars finally meet.
- The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap.
- A Soviet comedy based on a story by O. Henry adapted for film by Vladimir Mayakovsky. Three boys: an exemplary young communist, a son of capitalist, and a homeless street thug, swap their dresses and change their behavior.
- Vasya has been left to himself since childhood and is used to independence. In one day, Vasya manages to get a man out of the water, ride a strange car, expose a priest and catch the thief.
- Children from working class neighborhoods wearing patched-up clothes have fun in Kyiv streets - they slide down showy slopes, walk on the brink of a precipice and even conquer the light ice of the Dnieper river. They can see, how rich people live, only through a gap in the fence. The boy Fedko who is called "a tearaway" because of his naughty and disobedient character comes up with some risky entertainment, and adults often punish him for this while his friends do respect him.
- The neighbors, wanting to vacate the room she lives in, are trying to slander Vera, who dearly loves Alexei. He believes their gossip. Hooligan Sashka wounds the girl. Alexey realizes that he is wrong.
- Propaganda Soviet film, which aims to establish the image of Petliura and Ukrainians as anti-Semites and murderers.
- The Government of the fictional country Norland has unleashed a war with the neighboring Galikania and is suffering one defeat after another.
- On the elimination of child homelessness in the years of NEP. In a small port city in the basement Vasya and Ganusya live with a drunken father. After the father's death in a drunken brawl, Ganusa finds himself in a children's colony, and Vasya adjoins the port street children.
- The bourgeois wedding of Dekabryukhova is interrupted by the machine-gun fire of revolution. He flees abroad, leaving his wife. Oktyabryukhov stays and adapts to the new life. At the end of the picture there is an attempt at universal reconciliation and the poet's tormenting theme "three-way love". Dekabryuhov returns to his homeland. His wife is already married to Oktyabryukhov. Having learned about it, Dekabryukhov tries to leave, but the newlyweds force him to stay. The film was shot by director O. Iskander, but the main creator, of course, was Mayakovsky.
- Kavaleridze's silent revolutionary epic Perekop depicts the Perekop-Chongar operation (1920) during the Russian Civil War, in which the Red Army, led by Nestor Makhno's troops, defeated Wrangel, took Crimea, and, according to the axiom of Soviet historiography, ended the civil war. However, according to Kavaleridze, he is not only talking about this: "my film is dedicated to the three Perekop - the military, the destruction of the kulak and the implementation of the five-year plan."
- The true murder of the Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, which narrates the difficulties in returning the diplomatic bag of the murdered agent to Russia, by sea and before it is found by the British secret police.
- Mothl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at the inn between Kozodoyevka, where he purchased the creature, and Zlodyevke, where he lives.
- To pay off debts, Kira at 13 is sold by her parents to the old and rich Stavro. Constantly humiliated and beaten she gives birth to Dragomir and Kiralina. The trader Nazid kills Stavro to be able to sell Kiralina to a brothel.
- Comic misunderstandings related to the suspicion of the American authorities. The baggage of a Soviet engineer on a business trip to the USA says "Khimugol" (the name of the trust where he serves). There are oranges in the box, and the authorities decides that there is a new explosive. In parallel, the theme of the engineer's hobby is developing not just as an American, but as a movie star.
- 1919 Odessa is occupied by Denikin's troops. The background of the picture is the era of the wild revelry of the White Guard, intervention in the south of Russia and attempts to enslave it economically by European capitalists.
- About the peasant uprising at the end of the 18th century under the leadership of Maxim Zheleznyak and Ivan Gonta.
- 1919, Ukraine. On one side of the country - hetman detachments, on the other - in impassable thickets, one after another, guerrilla units of the Reds are formed. In the hut, in the center of one of these units, a forester lives with his granddaughter Olya. - Olena is a brave and courageous girl. Armed, she goes to reconnaissance, carries out the tasks of the partisans. Hetman track down the girl, find the forester's house, rob him. Using a blizzard, the commander of the partisan detachment Burmysh takes out a wounded forester and Olena from the forest. On the way they are stopped by a hetman guard squad, Burmysh and Olena are forced to flee. Olya manages to warn the partisans. - Partisans surround the Getman detachment, destroy it, making their way to join the advancing units of the Red Army.