| Virgin Soil Upturned | |
| Native Name: | Russian: Поднятая целина |
| Director: | Yuli Raizman |
| Music: | Georgy Sviridov[1] |
| Cinematography: | Leonid Kosmatov |
| Runtime: | 118 min. |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
| Studio: | Mosfilm |
Virgin Soil Upturned (Russian: Поднятая целина|Podnyataya tselina) is a 1939[2] Soviet drama film directed by Yuli Raizman.[3] [4]
In January 1930, during the collectivization, former sailor, communist-twenty-five-thousander, a former worker of the Leningrad plant, Semyon Davydov, arrives in the farm Gremyachy Log. 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 party members convene a meeting of Gremyachy Log's activists and the poor. The present farmers register in the collective farm and record those who should be dekulakized. The prosperous farmers do not aspire to the collective farm. At the end of February, entry into the collective farm stops. An enemy force is acting in the farm: the dissatisfied secretly gather to discuss how to discourage collectivization.