Aleksandr Pereguda
Writing
Biography
No biography available for Aleksandr Pereguda.
Born: August 9, 1893
Place of Birth: Zhitomir, Russian Empire
Known For
Perekop
This revolutionary epic likens the push for industrialization of Soviet Ukraine with the battle for Perekop during the Civil War. A missing plow blade is presented as a symbol of the country's backward peasant economy that needs to be transformed in the course of the industrial construction. In an onslaught of rapidly changing images, Ukrainian village with its peasants suspicious of everything new, dramatically collides with the frenzy of working factories, plants, and mines.
Beautiful Garden
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...
Vendetta
Neighbors, priest Sylvestr Izhekheruvymskyi and deacon Hordii Sviatoptitsyn, had a bloody feud with each other over a cherry tree that grew on the border between them and one day unexpectedly bore abundant large juicy berries.
MacDonald
A political satire on one of the enemies of the Soviet regime, the leader of the English Labour Party, James Ramsay Macdonald. The plot unfolds at a fast pace, using grotesque satirical techniques to prove that the royal power in England is a fiction.
Arsenaltsy
An agitation film based on historical events. An episode of the uprising of pro-Bolshevik workers at the Kyiv Arsenal factory against the forces of the Central Rada.
Filmography
as (uncredited)
as Passerby
as Underground worker
as American journalist