Ivan (Ukrainian: Iвaн, Russian: Иван) is a 1932 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Dovzhenko.
After the critical lambasting of his film Earth by the Soviet authorities, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs.
Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation.
However, the construction of Dniproges is underway, workers are building a dam to bury the rapids under water and create a power plant.
The foreman of the "black box office" (where salaries are given to violators) shames Stepan, listing through a loudspeaker how much he eats in vain every day.
Stepan bursts into the meeting, where he shouts that he refuses such a son, tries to attribute a high status to himself, repeating the words heard earlier from the foreman.
From June to September 1930, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, along with Daniel Demutsky and Yulia Solntseva, visited Czechoslovakia, Germany, England and France.
Returning to the USSR, he offered Ukrainefilm's management a script about the tragic fate of the Antarctic expedition of Umberto Nobile and Roald Amundsen, but was refused.
The filming was based on low-quality equipment, because Dovzhenko had to finish work quickly before the October holidays of 1932.