Exploded Days (1930) aka Vzorvannye dni

Starring Ivan Sizov, P. Kostenko, Aleksei Kharlamov, G. Rostov, Vladimir Chuvelyov
Directed by Aleksandr Solovyov
Print: Black/White
Runtime: 60 min
Genre: Drama

The year 1929. A “shock worker” from a tractor plant visits a film studio premises and is furious to see fake stage designs for a kitsch production about a Soviet life. He refuses to help the crew with his tractor, but is happy to ask one of the cameramen to go with him to visit an actual Soviet village. There they witness the birth of the kolkhoz and the dekulakization of wealthy villagers. Then they are transported to the future, to the year 1932, when the first five-year plan is done.