A Simple Case
About A Simple Case
After the Civil War, Red commanders Langovoy, Zhyoltikov, and Uncle Sasha come home to headquarters, and Langovoy lives with Mashenka, whom he married at the front. She nurses him through an illness, leaves to see her family, and returns to find he has fallen for a woman he rescued from an accident. He asks for, and gets, her forgiveness. Vsevolod Pudovkin and Mikhail Doller directed.
Cast & crew
More about A Simple Case
Aleksandr Rzheshevsky wrote it, and Georgy Bobrov and Grigory Kabalov photographed it. Wikidata dates publication 1930 and lists 96 minutes, while the title and the Commons file use 1932, the catalog year kept here. Pudovkin was charged with formalism, and the experimental sound film went out without its soundtrack.
Themes
Background
The story starts when three commanders come home from the Civil War and try to live as they had at the front.
Making
The soundtrack was dropped before release after the formalism charge.
Look
Georgy Bobrov and Grigory Kabalov photographed it.
Music
The film was planned with sound and released silent after Pudovkin was charged with formalism.
Preservation
The released picture is the silent version. The sound track was not issued.
Notes
- Aleksandr Baturin plays Langovoy, Yevgeniya Rogulina plays Mashenka, and Aleksandr Chistyakov plays Uncle Sasha.
- Uncle Sasha and Zhyoltikov stay bachelors and share a room.
- The catalog calls the project a reply to complaints that Storm Over Asia was too popular.
- Technical trouble, the catalog says, hit what was meant to be Pudovkin's first sound feature.
Scenes
- Mashenka returns from her family and finds Langovoy involved with the woman he pulled from an accident.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Простой случай. 1932 год.webm)
