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''Katka's Reinette Apples'' (russian: Катька - бумажный ранет, Katka - bumazhnyy ranet) is a 1926 Soviet silent
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directed by
Fridrikh Ermler Fridrikh Markovich Ermler (russian: Эрмлер, Фридрих Маркович; born Vladimir Markovich Breslav; 13 May 1898 in Rēzekne – 12 July 1967 in Leningrad) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-tim ...
and
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. The film's
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was by Yevgeni Yenej.


Plot

The film is set in Soviet Russia during the mid-1920s. The family of a young peasant woman Katya (Veronica Buzhinskaya) is left without a single food source when their cow dies. To save money for a new
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, Katya leaves her native village to work in
Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. Once she is in the big city, she falls in with a bad crowd by associating with the thief Syomka Zhgut (Valery Solovtsov). The girl starts to sell Reinette apples to earn money for a living and for the aforementioned new cow. Soon after meeting Syomka, Katya becomes pregnant and gives birth to his child. Once on the street, Katya meets a downtrodden homeless intellectual Vadka Zavrazhina (Fedor Nikitin), nicknamed "Tiligent". Taking pity on him, she invites him to her place.


Cast

* Veronika Buzhinskaya as Katka * Bella Chernova as Verka * Yakov Gudkin as Semka's companion *
Fyodor Nikitin Fyodor Mikhailovich Nikitin (russian: Фёдор Миха́йлович Ники́тин; May 3, 1900 in Lokhvytsia – July 17, 1988 in Moscow) was a Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR. Winner of two Stalin Prizes firs ...
as Vadka Zavrazhin or "Tiligent" * Tatyana Okova * Valeri Plotnikov * Valeri Solovtsov as Syomka Zhgut *
Eduard Ioganson Eduard Model Accessories is a Czech manufacturer of plastic models and finescale model accessories. Formed in 1989 in the city of Most, Eduard began in a rented cellar as a manufacturer of photoetched brass model components. Following the succ ...
as Drunk in the restaurant


Interesting Facts

*One of the directors of the film, Edward Johanson in a cameo plays a man who tries to get a goat tied to the table to drink. *In the original version of the script Katka and Syomka's baby dies.


References


Bibliography

* Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939''. Routledge, 2012.


External links

* Soviet silent feature films Soviet drama films 1920s Russian-language films Films directed by Fridrikh Ermler Soviet black-and-white films 1926 drama films Silent drama films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub