A Simple Case
As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin unleashed his flair for experimentation in what was supposed to be the director’s first sound feature. Everything went wrong: technical problems forced him to complete the film as a silent; viewers were baffled by the lack of a recognizable plot; then, the ideological climate of the Soviet Union changed. He was now being blamed for catering to bourgeois taste! Time has come to set the record straight. Here’s lyrical cinema at its best, deliberately operatic and yet intimate as it matches the characters’ inner life with the solemn rhythms of nature, and depicted through breathtaking black-and-white photography. A sensation at last year’s Pordenone fest, Pudovkin’s long-forgotten swan song to the art of montage is resurrected by Gabriel Thibaudeau’s emotionally charged live music performance. –PCU (USSR, 1930, 75m)
Year: 1930
Studio: Mezhrabpomfilm
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cast: Aleksandr Baturin, Yevgeniya Rogulina, Mariya Belousova, Andrei Gorchilin, Anna Chekulaeva, Ivan Novoseltsev
Crew: Vsevolod Pudovkin (Director), Mikhail Doller (Co-Director), Sergei Kozlovsky (Production Design), Alexandr Rzheshevsky (Screenplay), Grigory Kabalov (Director of Photography), Georgi Bobrov (Director of Photography)
Runtime: 75 minutes
Release: Dec 31, 1930
IMDb: 5.10/10 by 11 users
Popularity: 4
Country: Soviet Union
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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