Original title: Vavilon XX

Copyright: the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1979.

Format: feature narrative

Carrier: DVD

Color: color

Length: 95 min.

Original language: Ukrainian

English subtitles: yes

Film crew

Director: Ivan Mykolaichuk

Script writer: Vasyl Zemliak and Ivan Mykolaichuk

Director of photography: Yurii Harmash

Production designer: Anatolii Mamontov

Musical themes: Ivan Mykolaichuk

Sound editor: Tetiana Bondarchuk

Produced by the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Film cast:

Liubov Polishchuk as Malva, Ivan Mykolaichuk as Fabian, Les Serdiuk as Danko, Yaroslav Havryliuk as Lukian, Taisia Lytvynenko as Prysia, Boryslav Brondukov as Yavtushok, Liudmyla Chynsheva as Darynka, Anatolii Khostikoev as Volodia, Ivan Havryliuk as sailor Synytsia, Vitalii Rozstalny as Ruban, Kostiantyn Stepankov as Bubela, Olha Mateshko as Parfena, Volodymyr Shakalo as Makedonsky, Volodymyr Volkov and Valentyn Hrudynin as the Radenko brothers, Raisa Nedashkivska as Ruzia, Borys Ivchenko as the monk, Fedir Stryhun as Savka.

Folk melodies played by the triple musicians. Songs performed by Mykola Sulak.

Synopsis

A village with a curious name of Vavilon (Babylon) led a tranquil life. The only thing that set it apart from other similarly tranquil and picturesque villages was the fact that it had its own philosopher Fabian always accompanied by his pet billy goat. Shock waves of revolutionary upheaval reach the village. A Bolshevik sailor Klym Synytsia returns to Vavilon. What follows is a usual combination of things for that time: a Bolshevik organized collective farm, the kulaks (rich independent farmers) rabidly opposing it, a bloody showdown between the two, portrayed with a great deal of wit and humor.