Simple People
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Simple People is a 1945 Soviet
film
directed by Grigori Kozintsev
and Leonid Trauberg
. The film, along with the second part of Eisenstein
's Ivan the Terrible
was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov
and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during Khrushchev Thaw
, was disowned by Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Cinema of Russia
The cinema of Russia began in the Russian Empire, widely developed under the Soviet and in the years following the fall of the Soviet system, the Russian film industry would remain internationally recognised...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
directed by Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev was a Jewish Ukrainian, Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts...
and Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Jewish Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.-Filmography:* The Adventures of Oktyabrina ...
. The film, along with the second part of Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein , né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage"...
's Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Terrible (film)
Ivan the Terrible is a two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia made by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Part 1 was released in 1944 but Part 2 was not released until 1958 due to political censorship...
was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov was a Soviet politician.-Life:Zhdanov enlisted with the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1915 and was promoted through the party ranks, becoming the All-Union Communist Party manager in Leningrad after the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934...
and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during Khrushchev Thaw
Khrushchev Thaw
The Khrushchev Thaw refers to the period from the mid 1950s to the early 1960s, when repression and censorship in the Soviet Union were partially reversed and millions of Soviet political prisoners were released from Gulag labor camps, due to Nikita Khrushchev's policies of de-Stalinization and...
, was disowned by Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Cast
- Yuri TolubeyevYuri TolubeyevYuri Vladimirovich Tolubeyev was a Soviet theatrical and cinema actor, a Hero of the Socialist LabourHis son, Andrei Tolubeyev, also became an actor.- Filmography :* The Return of Maxim * Professor Mamlock * The Vyborg Side...
- Yeryemin - Olga Lebzak - Yeryemina
- Boris Zhukovsky - Makeev
- F. Babadzhanov - Akbashev
- Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya - grandmother
- I. Kudryavtseva - Varvara
- Larisa Yemelyantseva - Sasha
- Vladimir Kolchin - Ivanov
- Tatyana PelttserTatyana PelttserTatyana Ivanovna Pelttser , was a Soviet theatre and film actress, People’s Artist of the RSFSR , and People's Artist of the USSR ....
- Plaksina - Anatoli Chiryev - Romka
- Aleksandr Larikov - Kizlyakov
- Konstantin Adashevky - the cook