Katka's Reinette Apples

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Katka's Reinette Apples
Katka's Reinette Apples.jpg
Directed by
Written by
Cinematography
Production
company
Sovkino
Release date
  • 25 December 1926 (1926-12-25)
Running time
74 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesSilent
Russian intertitles

Katka's Reinette Apples (Russian: Катька бумажный ранет, romanizedKatka-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[]

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[]

  1. ^ Christie & Taylor p.430
  2. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 217.
  3. ^ "Катька Бумажный Ранет". Encyclopedia of Native Cinema. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  4. ^ 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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