''Simple People'' (russian: Простые люди) is a 1945

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directed by

Grigori Kozintsev Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev (russian: link=no, Григорий Михайлович Козинцев; 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964. In 1965 ...

and

Leonid Trauberg Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg (russian: Леонид Захарович Трауберг, 17 January 1902 – 14 November 1990) was a Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the S ...

. The film, along with the second part of Eisenstein's

Ivan the Terrible Ivan IV Vasilyevich (russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич; 25 August 1530 – ), commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584. Ivan ...

was harshly criticized by

Andrei Zhdanov Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov ( rus, Андре́й Алекса́ндрович Жда́нов, p=ɐnˈdrej ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈʐdanəf, links=yes; – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician and cultural ideologist. After World War ...

and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during

Khrushchev Thaw The Khrushchev Thaw ( rus, хрущёвская о́ттепель, r=khrushchovskaya ottepel, p=xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲ:ɪpʲɪlʲ or simply ''ottepel'')William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period ...

, was disowned by Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.

Cast

Yuri Tolubeyev Yuri Vladimirovich Tolubeyev (russian: Юрий Владимирович Толубеев, May 1, 1906, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire - December 28, 1979, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet theatrical and cinema actor. People's Artist of the USSR (195 ...

- Yeryemin * Olga Lebzak - Yeryemina *

Boris Zhukovsky Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...

- Makeev * F. Babadzhanov - Akbashev * Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya - grandmother * I. Kudryavtseva - Varvara * Larisa Yemelyantseva - Sasha * Vladimir Kolchin - Ivanov *

Tatyana Pelttser Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser (russian: Татья́на Ива́новна Пе́льтцер; german: Tatjana Peltzer; June 6, 1904 in Moscow – July 16, 1992 in Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of t ...

- Plaksina * Anatoli Chiryev - Romka * Aleksandr Larikov - Kizlyakov * Konstantin Adashevky - the cook

External links

* Lenfilm films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Grigori Kozintsev Films directed by Leonid Trauberg 1945 films Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich Soviet war films 1945 war films 1940s Russian-language films {{USSR-film-stub