''Your Acquaintance'' (russian: Ваша знакомая, Vasha znakomaya) is a 1927 Soviet short silent drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Aleksandra Khokhlova, Pyotr Galadzhev and

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. Only a fragment of the film still survives. The film's

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was by Vasili Rakhals and Alexander Rodchenko.

Plot

The film is set in Moscow, during the years of the NEP. Journalist Khokhlova falls in love with Petrovsky, a responsible officer at an industrial plant. This infatuation has a negative impact on her work and the girl is fired. Meanwhile Petrovsky's wife returns. This situation reveals the true nature of the lover who is an egoist and a vulgarian. The girl is near suicide however the tragic denouement is prevented by Vasilchikov who has been in love with the journalist for a long time, a modest editor of the department "Working inventions."

Cast

* Aleksandra Khokhlova as Khokhlova - journalist * Pyotr Galadzhev as Secretary *

as Vasilchikov * Boris Ferdinandov as Petrovski *

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as Petrovsky's wife *

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as Typographer

References

Bibliography

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

External links

* Films directed by Lev Kuleshov 1927 films 1927 short films Soviet drama films Russian drama films Soviet silent feature films 1920s Russian-language films Soviet black-and-white films 1927 drama films Russian silent feature films Russian black-and-white films Silent drama films 1920s Soviet films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub