Bread (Хліб) 94 years old

Ukrainian agitprop film from 1929 that was banned and long forgotten until its rediscovery in the 1970s, imaginatively shot by the gifted cameraman Oleksii Pankratiev, whose panoramic long shots feature dynamic compositions. The background, barren field and bare sky, raise the agricultural subject matter to the level of an epic poem. Using innovative editing, Shpykovskyi transformed an incredibly simple plot into an avant-garde work. Created the same year as Earth (Zemlya), the film forms a paradoxically conceptual, ideological, and aesthetic pair with Dovzhenko’s movie.

Credits

Bread Cast

Name	Character
Vladimir Uralsky He was 41, 67 years old when he died	as Zakhar

Bread Crew

Name	Department
Mykola Shpykovsky as Director. He was 31 (80) years old when He died	Directing
Nikolai Shpikovsky as Director. He was 31 (80) years old when He died	Directing