Simple People (1945)

Name: Simple People
Genre: War
Released: 1945-12-31
Duration: 74 min
Cast: Olga Lebzak, Boris Zhukovsky, F. Babadzhanov, Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Iraida Kudryavtseva

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.

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Released 1945-12-31 · 74 min · War

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg

Cast

Olga Lebzak as Eryomina
Boris Zhukovsky as Makeyev
F. Babadzhanov as Akbashev
Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya as Granny
Iraida 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
Konstantin Adashevsky as Cook
Yuriy Tolubeev as Yeryomin, works director
Boris Feodosyev as Pilot