Simple People (1945)

Original title

Простые люди

Directed by

Leonid Trauberg, Grigori Kozintsev

Genre

drama film, war film, romance film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple in Leningrad faces separation and hardship during World War II. The story follows their personal struggles and the quiet resilience of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

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What happens

Simple People (Russian: Простые люди) is a 1945 Soviet war romance film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The film, 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 Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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