vain every day. Then he complains to another foreman that lazy "peasants" were sent to Dniproges and comically sprinkles philosophical terms. Ivan complains that his efforts have not been properly appreciated, he thinks that he has no place on the Dnieper. At the same time, the secretary is sure that "there will be people" from him. He was soon accepted into the Communist Party as a leader. Ivan speaks on the radio, exposing his father's laziness and absenteeism, demanding to "divorce him." These shots are interspersed with a comic insert with a commoner and his wife: a woman wants to listen to foreign radio, the commoner succumbs, but then hesitates and eventually switches the radio to Soviet propaganda. Stepan bursts into the meeting, where he shouts that he refuses such a son, tries to attribute a high status to himself, repeating the words heard earlier from the foreman. But those present laugh at Stepan. Ivan enters and says that he is ashamed to be with his father from the same village. Ivan is "adopted" by the working class. She is followed by the mother of the deceased worker and calls for hard work to prove that her son's death was not in vain. Inspired, Ivan goes to study at the robotics faculty. Cast K. Bondarevsky as Young Ivan (as Konstantin Bondarevsky) Dmitry Golubinsky as Secretary Elena Golki as Mother of Killed Worker (as Elena Golik) Maksim Gornatko Aleksandr Zapolsky as Supervisor (as Alexander Zapolski) Pyotr Masokha as Ivan Guba (as Peter Masokha) Nikolai Nademsky Peter Pastushkov Stepan Shagaida as Stepan Vasiliyevich, the foreman Stepan Shkurat as Stepan Iosovich Guba, the idler Creation From June to September 1930, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, along with Danylo Demutsky and Yulia Solntseva, visited Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and France. In Prague, cinema directors called his films too revolutionary and overly artistic. His plans to voice "Earth" in Berlin did not materialize. Returning to the USSR, he offered Ukrainefilm's management a script about the tragic fate of the Antarctic expedition of Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen, but was refused. To continue working, Dovzhenko agreed to make a film imbued with communist ideology about the construction of the Dnieper Dam and at the same time his first sound film — which should confirm the irreversible path of industrialization in the USSR. The script was written in 11 days, but Dovzhenko himself almost never shot it, entrusting it to his