A Simple Case

5.3 (12 votes)• 1930• 75m•Released

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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)

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Languages: No Language

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin

Starring Cast: Aleksandr Baturin, Yevgeniya Rogulina, Mariya Belousova, Andrei Gorchilin, Anna Chekulaeva, Ivan Novoseltsev

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Aleksandr Baturin

Langovoy

Yevgeniya Rogulina

Mashenka

Mariya Belousova

Girl

Andrei Gorchilin

Worker

Anna Chekulaeva

Worker's wife

Ivan Novoseltsev

Vasya

Aleksandr Chistyakov

Uncle Sasha

V. Kuzmich

Zhyoltikov

Afanasiy Byelov

Grisha

Vladimir Uralskiy

Wounded soldier

Fyodor Ivanov

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