The Adventures of a Penny

Jan 1, 1929

1h 22m

★ 0.0

Overview

Children from working class neighborhoods wearing patched-up clothes have fun in Kyiv streets - they slide down showy slopes, walk on the brink of a precipice and even conquer the light ice of the Dnieper river. They can see, how rich people live, only through a gap in the fence. The boy Fedko who is called "a tearaway" because of his naughty and disobedient character comes up with some risky entertainment, and adults often punish him for this while his friends do respect him.

Genres

Family

Drama

Production Companies

VUFKU

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Cast

Fedko

Kolia Kopelian

Fedko's father

D. Lyubchenko

Fedko's father

Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi

Fedko's mother

E. Lyubchenko

Fedko's mother

D. Orlova

Posmityukha

Shura Kulchak

Spirka

Petya Kuryshkin

Styopka

Andryusha Pashkevich

Firm manager

Ivan Sagatovskiy

Firm manager's wife

K. Krotevich

Tolya, manager's son

Mark Orlov

Posmityukha's friend

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