Katka's Reinette Apples
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Production company | Sovkino |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Languages | Silent Russian intertitles |
Katka's Reinette Apples (Russian: Катька бумажный ранет, romanized: Katka-bumazhnyy ranet) is a 1926 Soviet silent drama film directed by Fridrikh Ermler and .[1][2][3]
The film's art direction was by .
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 with a bad crowd by associating with the thief Syomka Zhgut (Valery Solovtsov). The girl starts to sell Reinette apples to earn money for a living and for the aforementioned new cow. Soon after meeting Syomka, Katya becomes pregnant and gives birth to his child. 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
- as Verka
- as Semka's companion
- Fyodor Nikitin as Vadka Zavrazhin or "Tiligent"
- as Syomka Zhgut
- 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. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
- ^ a b "Катька — бумажный ранет". VokrugTV.
Bibliography[]
- Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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