Virgin Soil Upturned (1939 film)

Virgin Soil Upturned (Поднятая целина) is a 1939 Soviet drama film directed by Yuli Raizman.

Plot
In January 1930, the farm Gremyachy Log arrives collectivization former sailor, communist-twenty-five-thousander, a former worker of the Leningrad plant, Semyon Davydov. In the farm he meets and gets acquainted with Makar Nagulnov, the head of the local party cell, and the chairman of village council, Andrei Razmyotnov. The members of party convened a meeting of  Gremyachins activists and the poor. The present farmers registered in the collective farm and recorded those who should be dekulakization. The prosperous farmers did not aspire to the collective farm. At the end of February, an entry into the collective farm stopped, an enemy force acted in the farm. Dissatisfied secretly gathered to discuss how to discourage collectivization.

Cast

 * Gavriil Belov as Ostrovnov
 * Sergei Blinnikov as Bannik
 * Mikhail Bolduman	 as Nagulnov
 * Boris Dobronravov as Davydov
 * Vladimir Dorofeyev as grandfather Shchukar
 * Aleksandr Khokhlov (actor) as Polovtsev
 * Yelena Maksimova as Malanya Atamanchukova