A Simple Case

A Simple Case

1930
1h 15m
5.1

5.1/10

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Overview

As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin unleashed his flair for experimentation in what was supposed to be the director’s first sound feature. Everything went wrong: technical problems forced him to complete the film as a silent; viewers were baffled by the lack of a recognizable plot; then, the ideological climate of the Soviet Union changed. He was now being blamed for catering to bourgeois taste! Time has come to set the record straight. Here’s lyrical cinema at its best, deliberately operatic and yet intimate as it matches the characters’ inner life with the solemn rhythms of nature, and depicted through breathtaking black-and-white photography. A sensation at last year’s Pordenone fest, Pudovkin’s long-forgotten swan song to the art of montage is resurrected by Gabriel Thibaudeau’s emotionally charged live music performance. –PCU (USSR, 1930, 75m)

Status: Released

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies
Mezhrabpomfilm
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
No Language

Quick Facts

Original Title Простой случай
Release Date December 31, 1930
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0023359

Cast

Aleksandr Baturin
Aleksandr Baturin

Langovoy

Yevgeniya Rogulina
Yevgeniya Rogulina

Mashenka

Mariya Belousova
Mariya Belousova

Girl

Andrei Gorchilin
Andrei Gorchilin

Worker

Anna Chekulaeva
Anna Chekulaeva

Worker's wife

Ivan Novoseltsev
Ivan Novoseltsev

Vasya

Aleksandr Chistyakov
Aleksandr Chistyakov

Uncle Sasha

V. Kuzmich
V. Kuzmich

Zhyoltikov

Afanasiy Byelov
Afanasiy Byelov

Grisha

Vladimir Uralskiy
Vladimir Uralskiy

Wounded soldier

Fyodor Ivanov
Fyodor Ivanov

Key Crew

Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director
Alexandr Rzheshevsky
Screenplay

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