Simple People (1945)

6.4/10

Cast

Olga Lebzak, Boris Zhukovsky, F. Babadzhanov, Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, I. Kudryavtseva

Overview

A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.