Simple People

A 1945 Soviet war film which, 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 the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.

• Grigori KozintsevDirector
• Leonid TraubergDirector
• Grigori KozintsevWriter
• Leonid TraubergWriter
• Dmitri ShostakovichOriginal Music Composer

• Olga LebzakEryomina
• Boris ZhukovskyMakeyev
• F. BabadzhanovAkbashev
• Ekaterina Korchagina-AleksandrovskayaGranny
• Iraida KudryavtsevaVarvara Shapkina
• Larisa YemelyantsevaSasha Slepnyova
• Vladimir KolchinIvanov
• Tatyana PelttserPlaksina
• Anatoliy ChiryevRomka
• Aleksandr LarikovKizlyakov
• Konstantin AdashevskyCook
• Yuriy TolubeevYeryomin, works director