Lazar Frenkel

Lost film directed by Oleksandr Dovzhenko (his first film) and Favst Lopatynskyi. It is a satire of the NEP period. Vasia, the son of a factory’s worker, is attracted by the romance of adventures. And he goes to look for them. He saves a drowning drunkard who tries to beat him. Vasia escapes from him in a vehicle parked on the shore. However, the vehicle belongs to a superintendent who, when he does not find it, stages its theft. Meanwhile, Vasia exposes priests in the church. As a result, the church is turned into a cinema, and the priest becomes a cinema technician. And finally, Vasia’s last deed is catching a criminal at home and denouncing him to the militia.

To help out his friend Lenya, Yura steals a Stradivarius violin belonging to the professor from his grandfather, a violin maker. Having learned about everything, the professor begins to study with the talented Lenya. Circus performers persuade Lenya to give up the violin and perform in the circus...

The film is set in one of the regions of Western Ukraine in the 1920s. A poor peasant, Vasyl, openly opposes the arbitrariness of the lord's authorities. While hunting in the lord's forest, he is captured by soldiers and imprisoned in a dungeon. His beloved girl Lesia, with the help of the villagers, opens the dam, and water begins to flood the manor. Amid the commotion, Vasyl escapes from his captivity.

A student intern, Dmitry Lopukhov, comes to the cable factory and quickly gains a reputation as a trustworthy guy. Soon he is appointed to the position of engineer to replace Shtokman, who has been accused of fraud. At the same time, Lopukhov befriends his former classmate, the son of the fired Stockman, and decides to achieve a "beautiful life" at any cost-one that is no worse than Stockman's. The news of his wife's pregnancy goes against his plans. He advises his wife to get rid of the child, but the offended Nina files for divorce. Lopukhov becomes entangled in his ties with Stockman, and under his influence, commits a crime.He is exposed. Nina, after graduating from the institute, returns to the factory and becomes a good specialist. 

About a merry, smart boy Tom Sawyer, that, testing, as him it seemed to, all facilities, to be good, decided nevertheless to go away from home and become a marine robber.

In one of the small port towns, a boy named Vasya lives in a basement with his drunkard father and sister Ganusya. After a disagreement, his drunken friends kill his father. Ganusya is sent to a children's colony. Vasya joins a group of homeless people. One day, the leader of the homeless, Koska, and his friend, nicknamed Sailor, detain a girl, Alya, the daughter of the seaman Chugunov, on the street to get a ransom for her. But while Koska and Sailor negotiate with the father for a ransom, Vasya, who was assigned to watch over Alya, releases the girl and takes her to her father himself. The verdict of the homeless is unequivocal: this is treason.

Vasja, a bookworm, is constantly lost in daydreams. Inspired by novels like Robinson Crusoe, he experiences the wildest adventures in his imagination. When Vasja embarks on a real-life adventure one day, he is forced to face the sobering realization that real life is very different.

Vasja, a bookworm, is constantly lost in daydreams. Inspired by novels like Robinson Crusoe, he experiences the wildest adventures in his imagination. When Vasja embarks on a real-life adventure one day, he is forced to face the sobering realization that real life is very different.