Blown Up Days

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 fiveyear plan is done and the communesovkhoz is established Movies can move faster than time but the pace of change in Soviet society is even faster than that In the movie the entrance gate of the Odesa film factory where all of the indoors scenes were shot can be seen The outdoors scenes were filmed all over Eastern Ukraine and Southern Russia Kuban at Kharkiv factories in Ukrainian villages and in the 240 hasovkhoz Gigant in Rostov region the latter representing the future after the fiveyear plan