Simple People

Simple People

74 mins | War | Dec. 31, 1945

A 1945 Soviet war film which, 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 the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.

Simple People

74 mins | War | Dec. 31, 1945

Simple People
A 1945 Soviet war film which, 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 the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Producers Lenfilm
Original title Простые люди
Directors Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
Writers Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev

Cast

Olga Lebzak

as Eryomina, his wife

Boris Zhukovsky

as Makeyev

F. Babadzhanov

as Akbashev

I. Kudryavtseva

as Varvara Shapkina

Larisa Yemelyantseva

as Sasha Slepnyova

Vladimir Kolchin

as Ivanov

Tatyana Pelttser

as Plaksina

Anatoliy Chiryev

as Romka

Aleksandr Larikov

as Kizlyakov

Yuriy Tolubeev

as Yeryomin, works director