Your Acquaintance
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| Directed by | Lev Kuleshov |
| Written by | Aleksandr Kurs |
| Cinematography | Konstantin Kuznetsov |
| Edited by | Lev Kuleshov |
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| Country | Soviet Union |
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Your Acquaintance (Russian: Ваша знакомая, romanized: Vasha 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
[edit]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
[edit]- Aleksandra Khokhlova as Khokhlova - journalist
- Pyotr Galadzhev as Secretary
- Yuri Vasilchikov as Vasilchikov
- Boris Ferdinandov as Petrovski
- Anna Chekulaeva as Petrovsky's wife
- Aleksandr Gromov as Typographer
References
[edit]- ^ Christie & Taylor p.434
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 234.
Bibliography
[edit]- Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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