Katka's Reinette Apples
Katka's Reinette Apples (Russian: Катька бумажный ранет, romanized: Katka-bumazhnyy ranet) is a 1926 Soviet silent drama film directed by Fridrikh Ermler and Eduard Ioganson.[1][2][3]
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Directed by | Fridrikh Ermler Eduard Ioganson |
Written by | Mikhail Borisoglebsky Boris Leonidov |
Cinematography | Yevgeni Mikhajlov Andrei Moskvin |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Silent Russian intertitles |
The film's art direction was by Yevgeni Yenej.
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
- Bella Chernova as Verka
- Yakov Gudkin as Semka's companion
- Fyodor Nikitin as Vadka Zavrazhin or "Tiligent"
- Tatyana Okova
- Valeri Plotnikov
- Valeri Solovtsov as Syomka Zhgut
- Eduard Ioganson as Drunk in the restaurant
Interesting Facts
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.
- "Катька — бумажный ранет". VokrugTV.
Bibliography
- Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.