Simple People

Simple People (1945) is a war film directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg rated 6.2/10.

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.

Cast

Olga Lebzak

Eryomina

Boris Zhukovsky

Makeyev

F. Babadzhanov

Akbashev

Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya

Granny

Iraida Kudryavtseva

Varvara Shapkina

Larisa Yemelyantseva

Sasha Slepnyova

Vladimir Kolchin

Ivanov

Tatyana Pelttser

Plaksina

Anatoliy Chiryev

Romka

Aleksandr Larikov

Kizlyakov

Konstantin Adashevsky

Cook

Yuriy Tolubeev

Yeryomin, works director