

Simple People
1945 · 74 min · War
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.
- Directors
- Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev
- Writers
- Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
- Released
- December 31, 1945
- Language
- Russian
Cast

Olga Lebzak
Eryomina

Boris Zhukovsky
Makeyev
F. Babadzhanov
Akbashev

Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya
Granny

Iraida Kudryavtseva
Varvara Shapkina

Larisa Yemelyantseva
Sasha Slepnyova

Vladimir Kolchin
Ivanov

Tatyana Pelttser
Plaksina
Anatoliy Chiryev
Romka

Aleksandr Larikov
Kizlyakov

Konstantin Adashevsky
Cook

Yuriy Tolubeev
Yeryomin, works director
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