A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.
Editing
Editing so aggressive it assaults your eyeballs. Respect.
Direction
Dovzhenko throws every trick at the wall—somehow sticks.
Director
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Ukraine's brief cultural autonomy before Stalin's crackdown—Dovzhenko somehow kept making films despite eventually falling from grace.
The Arsenal uprising actually happened in January 1918; Dovzhenko fictionalized Tymish entirely, creating a mythic every-worker-hero that Soviet audiences were supposed to emulate.
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