Simple People

1945· 74 min★ 6.3· War

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, Boris Zhukovsky, F. Babadzhanov

Director: Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev