Katka's Reinette Apples
About Katka's Reinette Apples
Katya's cow dies, and the family has nothing to sell. She leaves the village for Leningrad to earn a Jersey. In the city she sells reinette apples and takes up with the thief Syomka Zhgut. She has his child. On the street she meets Vadka, a homeless man nicknamed Tiligent, and takes him in. He is arrested for theft. She gets work in a factory.
Cast & crew
More about Katka's Reinette Apples
Fridrikh Ermler and Eduard Ioganson directed. Mikhail Borisoglebsky and Boris Leonidov wrote it. Yevgeni Mikhailov and Andrei Moskvin photographed it. Yevgeni Yenej designed the sets. Sovkino released it on 25 December 1926. It runs 74 minutes. The Russian title is Катька — бумажный ранет.
Themes
Background
Sovkino released it at the end of 1926, set in the same mid-1920s Leningrad where a village girl is selling fruit to buy back a cow.
Making
Ermler and Ioganson shot the city half in Leningrad, with Moskvin, later Eisenstein's cameraman, sharing the photography with Mikhailov.
Look
Yevgeni Mikhailov and Andrei Moskvin photographed the village, the apple selling, and the rooms Katka keeps in the city.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Veronika Buzhinskaya plays Katka. Valeri Solovtsov plays Syomka Zhgut. Fyodor Nikitin plays Vadka. Bella Chernova plays Verka. Yakov Gudkin plays Syomka's companion.
- Ioganson also appears as a drunk with a goat in a restaurant.
- Tatyana Okova plays Praskeva Krutikova, Verka's landlord.
- A paper apple, a ранет, is the fruit she sells. The title names that variety.
Scenes
- The cow dies and Katya leaves for the city.
- She takes Vadka, called Tiligent, off the street into her room.
- After his arrest she goes to work in a factory.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Катька - бумажный ранет (1926).webm)
