Movie

Downpour (1929)

• April 18, 1929

• History

Overview

The lost film about the peasant rebellion of the 18th century in Ukraine, led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta. The history of the haydamak movement became a trigger for authors to have experiments in the field of film language: shooting against the background of black velvet, focus on the static character of the picture, the sculptural nature of composition mise-en-scène solutions, replacement of dramatic collisions with cinema engravings depicting the historical past.

Director

Ivan Kavaleridze

Writers

Ivan Kavaleridze

Starring

Ivan Marianenko, M. Petlyashenko, Stepan Shkurat