A Simple Case

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)

Main Cast

Aleksandr Baturin

Langovoy

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Yevgeniya Rogulina

Mashenka

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Mariya Belousova

Girl

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Andrei Gorchilin

Worker

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Anna Chekulaeva

Worker's wife

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ivan Novoseltsev

Vasya

Age : 36 | Popularity : 3%

Aleksandr Chistyakov

Uncle Sasha

Age : 61 | Popularity : 4%

V. Kuzmich

Zhyoltikov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Vsevolod Pudovkin
	Co-Director	Mikhail Doller
Department	Role	Name

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