Katka's Reinette Apples
| Katka's Reinette Apples | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by |
Fridrikh Ermler Eduard Ioganson |
| Written by |
Mikhail Borisoglebsky Boris Leonidov |
| Cinematography |
Yevgeni Mikhajlov Andrei Moskvin |
Production company | |
Release date |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language |
Silent Russian intertitles |
Katka's Reinette Apples (Russian: Катька бумажный ранет, translit. Katka-bumazhnyy ranet) is a 1926 Soviet silent drama film directed by Fridrikh Ermler and Eduard Ioganson.[1][2][3]
The film's art direction was by Yevgeni Yenej.
Plot
The film is set in Soviet Russia during the mid-1920s. The family of a young peasant woman Katya (Veronica Buzhinskaya) is left without a single food source when their cow dies. To save money for a new Jersey, Katya leaves her native village to work in Leningrad. Once she is in the big city, she falls in bad crowd by associating with the thief Syomka Zhgut (Valery Solovtsov). The girl earns money by selling Reinette apples for living and for the purchase of a new cow. Soon Katya becomes pregnant and then gives birth to a child from Syomka. Once on the street Katya meets a downtrodden homeless intellectual Vadka Zavrazhina (Fedor Nikitin), nicknamed "Tiligent". Taking pity on him, she invites him to her place.
Cast
- Veronika Buzhinskaya as Katka
- Bella Chernova as Verka
- Yakov Gudkin as Semka's companion
- Fyodor Nikitin as Vadka Zavrazhin or "Tiligent"
- Tatyana Okova
- Valeri Plotnikov
- Valeri Solovtsov as Syomka Zhgut
- Eduard Ioganson as Drunk in the restaurant
Interesting Facts
- One of the directors of the film, Edward Johanson in a cameo plays a man who tries to get a goat tied to the table to drink.[4]
- In the original version of the script Katka and Syomka's baby dies.[4]
References
- ↑ Christie & Taylor p.430
- ↑ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 217.
- ↑ "Катька Бумажный Ранет". Encyclopedia of Native Cinema.
- 1 2 "Катька — бумажный ранет". VokrugTV.
Bibliography
- Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.