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A Simple Case (1930)

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)
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Vsevolod Pudovkin profile
Vsevolod Pudovkin

Director

Alexandr Rzheshevsky profile
Alexandr Rzheshevsky

Screenplay

Cast

Aleksandr Baturin profile
Aleksandr Baturin

Langovoy

Yevgeniya Rogulina profile
Yevgeniya Rogulina

Mashenka

Mariya Belousova profile
Mariya Belousova

Girl

Andrei Gorchilin profile
Andrei Gorchilin

Worker

Anna Chekulaeva profile
Anna Chekulaeva

Worker's wife

Ivan Novoseltsev profile
Ivan Novoseltsev

Vasya

Aleksandr Chistyakov profile
Aleksandr Chistyakov

Uncle Sasha

V. Kuzmich profile
V. Kuzmich

Zhyoltikov

Afanasiy Byelov profile
Afanasiy Byelov

Grisha

Vladimir Uralskiy profile
Vladimir Uralskiy

Wounded soldier

Aleksandr Baturin profile
Aleksandr Baturin

Langovoy

Yevgeniya Rogulina profile
Yevgeniya Rogulina

Mashenka

Mariya Belousova profile
Mariya Belousova

Girl

Andrei Gorchilin profile
Andrei Gorchilin

Worker

Anna Chekulaeva profile
Anna Chekulaeva

Worker's wife

Ivan Novoseltsev profile
Ivan Novoseltsev

Vasya

Aleksandr Chistyakov profile
Aleksandr Chistyakov

Uncle Sasha

V. Kuzmich profile
V. Kuzmich

Zhyoltikov

Afanasiy Byelov profile
Afanasiy Byelov

Grisha

Vladimir Uralskiy profile
Vladimir Uralskiy

Wounded soldier

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Release Date

December 31, 1930

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