A Simple Case (1930)
1h 15m
Running Time
December 31, 1930Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

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

Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director

Mikhail Doller
Co-Director

Sergei Kozlovsky
Production Design

Alexandr Rzheshevsky
Screenplay

Grigory Kabalov
Director of Photography

Georgi Bobrov
Director of Photography
Media.

Details.
Release DateDecember 31, 1930
Original NameПростой случай
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 15m
Genres
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Wiki.
A Simple Case (Russian: Простой случай; Prostoy sloochay) is a 1932 Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller. Pudovkin was publicly charged with formalism for this experimental sound film and was forced to release without its sound track.
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