Simple People

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Olga LebzakEryomina

Boris ZhukovskyMakeyev

F. Babadzhanov

F. BabadzhanovAkbashev

Ekaterina Korchagina-AleksandrovskayaGranny

Iraida KudryavtsevaVarvara Shapkina

Larisa YemelyantsevaSasha Slepnyova

Vladimir KolchinIvanov

Tatyana PelttserPlaksina

Anatoliy Chiryev

Anatoliy ChiryevRomka

Aleksandr LarikovKizlyakov

Konstantin AdashevskyCook

Yuriy TolubeevYeryomin, works director