Ukraine | 1927

This educational video gives a popular account of the causes and undoubted benefits of the Dneprostroi Dam construction, keeping in mind Lenin’s words: “Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.”

Ukraine | 1927

Based on the pamphlet by Paul Lafargue, this fabulous anti-capitalist film tells the story of a poor bus driver (played by Amvrosii Buchma, a prominent Ukrainian actor) who has sold his stomach to a rich man just to allow him to consume more food. Except for this fragment, the film is considered lost.

Ukraine | 1928

Short animation ad trying to persuade Soviet Union residents to put their salaries into the State Bank.

Ukraine | 1929

Sharp satires about imperialist reality and its predatory nature was a popular genre of Soviet propaganda. In this cartoon, disarmament serves as a pacifist mask, revealing the true militaristic ambitions of the bourgeoisie.

Ukraine | 1929

This cartoon introduces a brand new enemy of the state – an absentee. For the Soviet system, based on the sacralization of labor, an absentee was not only a social outcast, but also an infernal heretic. It’s clear now why not only his fellow Soviet citizens, but also conscious Soviet animals condemned him.

Ukraine | 1929

Definitely performing a Kafkaesque scenario, this animation depicts the drama of an average man caught in a bureaucratic maze. The cartoon encourages people to simply reject excessive paperwork, eliminate useless bureaucracy, optimize industrial production, and use recycling technologies.

Ukraine | 1930

A group of animated musical instruments, theatrical costumes and other artistic attributes head full rush into a new Palace of Arts, a new aesthetic space. As art in the USSR was never an autonomous sphere, the aesthetic Soviet project was not just a superstructure. Beyond that, it created a new, utopian dimension of Soviet reality.

Ukraine | 1928

Unique animated trailer for The Eleventh Year, the first film Dziga Vertov made in Ukraine at VUFKU, intended to glorify the achievements of the First Five-Year Plan and the tenth anniversary of Socialist rule. Evhen Makarov made the advertisment in collaboration with Vertov. The trailer was discovered in the mid-1990s.