A Simple Case

A Simple Case (1930)

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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)

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Writer: Alexandr Rzheshevsky

Casts

	Aleksandr Baturin as Langovoy
	Yevgeniya Rogulina as Mashenka
	Mariya Belousova as Girl
	Andrei Gorchilin as Worker
	Anna Chekulaeva as Worker's wife
	Ivan Novoseltsev as Vasya
	Aleksandr Chistyakov as Uncle Sasha
	V. Kuzmich as Zhyoltikov
	Afanasiy Byelov as Grisha
	Vladimir Uralskiy as Wounded soldier
	Fyodor Ivanov as

Crew