Virgin Soil Upturned (Russian: Поднятая целина, romanized: Podnyataya tselina) is a 1939[2] Soviet drama film directed by Yuli Raizman.

[3][4] In January 1930, during the period of collectivization, Semyon Davydov, a former sailor and communist-twenty-five-thousander who had previously worked at a Leningrad factory, arrives at the village of Gremyachy Log to oversee the establishment of a collective farm.

Under pressure from central authorities to accelerate the process, Davydov and his team work tirelessly to overcome the challenges posed by the village's middle-class farmers, sabotage, and inefficiencies.

Over time, the collective farm sees the arrival of machinery, symbolized by the tractors that Ded Shchukar, an elderly villager, had dreamed of.

In the final scene, the tractors work the fields under the stirring music of composer Georgy Sviridov, marking the triumph of collectivization and the transformation of the village.