Simple People (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.
Directors: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg.
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Olga Lebzak as Eryomina |
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Boris Zhukovsky as Makeyev |
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F. Babadzhanov as Akbashev |
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Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya as Granny |
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Iraida Kudryavtseva as Varvara Shapkina |
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Larisa Yemelyantseva as Sasha Slepnyova |
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Vladimir Kolchin as Ivanov |
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Tatyana Pelttser as Plaksina |
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Anatoliy Chiryev as Romka |
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Aleksandr Larikov as Kizlyakov |
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Konstantin Adashevsky as Cook |
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Yuriy Tolubeev as Yeryomin, works director |
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Boris Feodosyev as Pilot |
| Directing | Grigori Kozintsev | Director |
| Directing | Leonid Trauberg | Director |
| Writing | Grigori Kozintsev | Writer |
| Writing | Leonid Trauberg | Writer |
| Sound | Dmitri Shostakovich | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Andrey Moskvin | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Anatoli Nazarov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Evgeny Eney | Production Design |
| Art | David Vinitsky | Production Design |
| Sound | Ilya Volk | Sound Director |
| Directing | Iosif Shapiro | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Valentina Mironova | Editor |
| Camera | Aleksandr Sysoyev | Camera Operator |
| Production | Aleksandr Ginzburg | Executive Producer |