VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration) existed for less than nine years (1922-1930), but it managed to release over 140 fiction films, several hundreds of non-fiction films and newsreels, dozens of animations, gain fame of “Ukrainian Hollywood,” and take under its control all aspects of the cinematic process – filmmaking, distribution, film press, propaganda, and education. From over 140 full-length fiction films made by VUFKU, about 60 films are considered lost. A lot of the surviving films have come down to us incomplete (without one or more parts).

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A Landlord

A Tyran

1924, First (Odesa) and Second (Yalta) Film Studios VUFKU, 6 parts / 1,720-1,750 m

Director: 
Vladimir Gardin, Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Scriptwriter:
 Vladimir Gardin
Cameraman:
 Yevgeniy Slavinskiy
Artist:
 Vladimir Egorov
Cast:
 Iona Talanov (Kashkarov, a landlord), B. Chuievskyi (Mykola, his son), Ivan Kapralov (Vanka Krasnov, a hunter), Mykola Saltykov (Arkharov, a chief hunter), Aleksandra Rebikova (Aksinia, a serf), N. Zubova (head of the serf harem), Liana Iskritskaia (Susanna, tutor’s daughter, French), Andrii Hromov (a valet), Leo Nehri (a governor), L. Brevi, Klenovska, Olha Bystrytska, Fokht (serfs), Nikolay Panov, Karl Tomskyi

The middle of the 19th century. An elderly bored landlord arranges balls, huntings, fist fights, and parties. Moreover, he offers his guests his serfs, boys and girls, to buy or to entertain with. One of them, Vanka Krasnov, dreams to marry the noble girl Askiusha. For this reason, he has to win the rural strong man Mitka in a fist fight. However, even after the honest victory the landlord tries to get Aksiusha. Vanka has to challenge the landlord himself.

It is a screening of the novella A Landlord by the Russian poet of the 19th century, Nikolay Ogarev.

The film shooting began in May 1923. The film was shot in the former estate of prince Svyatopolk-Mirski in Liubotyn near Kharkiv. The film was released on 04 January 1924.

The film is lost.