Bread (film) (1929)

Original title

Хліб

Directed by

Mykola Shpykovskyi

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

45 min

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A silent film set in 1920s Soviet Ukraine. It shows the harsh realities of collectivisation and the struggles of rural life.

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What happens

Bread (Ukrainian: Хліб, romanized: Khlib), also known as The Year 1920 (Ukrainian: Тисяча дев'ятсот двадцятий рік, romanized: Tysyacha dev'yatsot dvadtsyatyy rik), is a 1930 Ukrainian Soviet silent film directed by Mykola Shpykovskyi. Due to its critical depiction of collectivisation in Ukraine, soon after its completion, it was banned in the Soviet Union by the State Committee for Cinematography. After spending more than 80 years in the archives of the Russian State Film Fund, the National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre rediscovered and restored the film in 2012 and re-released it in 2013. It received positive reviews both before it was banned and after it was re-released. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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