Ivan
About Ivan
The Dnieper rapids are still in the frame while workers build the Dniprohes dam to drown them and run a power station. In the village, a speech says extra hands should go to the site. Young Ivan agrees. His father, Stepan, says he will go only if he wants to. Ivan's work on the dam is heavy and sloppy. A foreman tells him so. At night Ivan studies engineering, which Stepan scorns. A bucket of cement falls and kills a driver. A Komsomol council is called to check the machinery.
Cast & crew
More about Ivan
Oleksandr Dovzhenko wrote and directed it after Soviet criticism of his film Earth. The Ukrainian title is Іван. The dialogue is Ukrainian. Narrative location is Ukraine.
Themes
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Yuri Yekelchik, Danylo Demutskyi, and Mikhail Glider photographed the river and the dam.
Music
Borys Liatoshynsky, Yulii Meitus, and Igor Belza are credited with music.
Preservation
A Commons transfer of Ivan is online.
Notes
- Petro Masokha, Stepan Shkurat, and Stepan Shagaida are on the Wikidata cast list.
- A circulating copy runs about 86 minutes, shorter than the 103 minutes on Wikidata.
Awards
- Special Jury Prize, 2nd Venice International Film Festival (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
Scenes
- Stepan refuses the order to leave the village.
- A cement bucket falls and kills the driver.
- Ivan studies engineering at night after the foreman calls his work sloppy.
