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Your Acquaintance
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
Written by Aleksandr Kurs
Cinematography Konstantin Kuznetsov
Edited byLev Kuleshov
Production
company
Release date
  • 25 October 1927 (1927-10-25)
CountrySoviet Union
Languages

Your Acquaintance ( Russian: Ваша знакомая, romanizedVasha znakomaya) is a 1927 Soviet short silent drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Aleksandra Khokhlova, Pyotr Galadzhev and Yuri Vasilchikov. [1] [2] Only a fragment of the film still survives.

The film's art direction was by Vasili Rakhals and Alexander Rodchenko.

Plot

The film is set in Moscow, during the years of the NEP. Journalist Khokhlova falls in love with Petrovsky, a responsible officer at an industrial plant. This infatuation has a negative impact on her work and the girl is fired. Meanwhile Petrovsky's wife returns. This situation reveals the true nature of the lover who is an egoist and a vulgarian. The girl is near suicide however the tragic denouement is prevented by Vasilchikov who has been in love with the journalist for a long time, a modest editor of the department "Working inventions."

Cast

References

  1. ^ Christie & Taylor p.434
  2. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 234.

Bibliography

  • Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Your Acquaintance
Directed by Lev Kuleshov
Written by Aleksandr Kurs
Cinematography Konstantin Kuznetsov
Edited byLev Kuleshov
Production
company
Release date
  • 25 October 1927 (1927-10-25)
CountrySoviet Union
Languages

Your Acquaintance ( Russian: Ваша знакомая, romanizedVasha znakomaya) is a 1927 Soviet short silent drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Aleksandra Khokhlova, Pyotr Galadzhev and Yuri Vasilchikov. [1] [2] Only a fragment of the film still survives.

The film's art direction was by Vasili Rakhals and Alexander Rodchenko.

Plot

The film is set in Moscow, during the years of the NEP. Journalist Khokhlova falls in love with Petrovsky, a responsible officer at an industrial plant. This infatuation has a negative impact on her work and the girl is fired. Meanwhile Petrovsky's wife returns. This situation reveals the true nature of the lover who is an egoist and a vulgarian. The girl is near suicide however the tragic denouement is prevented by Vasilchikov who has been in love with the journalist for a long time, a modest editor of the department "Working inventions."

Cast

References

  1. ^ Christie & Taylor p.434
  2. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 234.

Bibliography

  • Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.

External links



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