Original title: Sumka dipkuriera
Copyright: VUFKU (Vseukrainske fotokinoupravlinnia), Odesa, 1927.
Format: feature, narrative.
Carrier: DVD
Color: black-and-white
Length:            47’40" or 1646 m, 7 parts.
Original language: silent with Russian inter-titles
English subtitles: yes

Film crew
Director: Oleksander Dovzhenko
Script writer: Moisei Zats and Borys Sharansky, adapted by O. Dovzhenko
Cinematographer: Mykola Kozlovsky
Artistic designer: Georgy Beisenhertz
Inter-titles: Yuri Yanovsky

Film cast
M. Buyukli as Secretary of the Embassy
A. Klymenko as first diplomatic courier
H. Zelendzhev-Shipov as second diplomatic courier
Ida Penzo as Ellen, the ballerina
B. Zahorsky as the spy
Ivan Zamychkovsky
Serhy Minin as Mr. White, the police inspector
H. Skoretsky as Harry the boatswain
I. Kapralov as Ralph, the seaman
O. Suslov as railway inspector
Redina as his wife
H. Pinkler as Jack, his younger son
V. Komaretsky as captain of the “Victoria”
O. Merlatti as assistant captain
O. Dovzhenko as stoker
Dmytro Kapka as passenger
Kyrylo Eggers as sailor, the boxer
A. Belov as tavern owner
M. Smolensky as passenger in spectacles
Yelena Chernova as ballerina’s chambermaid
Tarasevych as the port manager
Kalvelis as  passenger
Solntsev as passenger
Lanskoy as passenger
P. Matviyenko as 1st bandit
Sandulevsky as 2nd bandit

Synopsis
From the adapted introduction by Serhy Trymbach:
This is Dovzhenko’s first full-length film. He started working on it in October of 1926, with a screenplay written for him. According to Oleksy Shvachko, Pavlo Nechesa, the Odesa Film Factory director, after having seen Dovzhenko’s previous film “Love’s Berry” said, “Sashko, since you don’t know how to write screenplays, do not meddle in that matter. I should have fired you, but you have a talent and a feel for you. Take this screenplay “The Diplomatic Pouch” by Zats and Sharansky. If you make it into a good film good for you, if you fail I’ll fire you even though you are a friend of mine.”
The film is a story of a Soviet diplomatic courier who is killed in England. Before he dies he manages to hand a pouch with secret documents over to an English worker. Driven by a strong feeling of class solidarity the worker sends his teen-aged son to his elder son Harry who works as a boatswain on the ship Victoria which is about to set sail for Leningrad. At the same time police inspector White and a spy are after the pouch. The struggle unfolds between the seamen eager to take the secret documents to their destination in Leningrad and the representatives of the capitalist world hell-bent on intercepting the pouch.
The film stands out as the only moving picture where Dovzhenko himself appears as one of the protagonists – the ship’s stoker – giving the modern-day viewer a truly unforgettable experience. The first part of the film, about 20 minutes, has never been found.