Release Date

31 Dec, 1930

Runtime

01:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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)

Original Title

Простой случай

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Actors

Aleksandr Baturin

Yevgeniya Rogulina

Mariya Belousova

Andrei Gorchilin

Anna Chekulaeva

Ivan Novoseltsev

Aleksandr Chistyakov

V. Kuzmich

Afanasiy Byelov

Vladimir Uralskiy

Crew

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Mikhail Doller

Sergei Kozlovsky

Alexandr Rzheshevsky

Grigory Kabalov

Georgi Bobrov