8.2 /10 1 Votes
7.2/10 IMDb Running time 74 minutes Initial release 25 December 1926 (Russia) | 4.6/5 Mubi Productioncompany Sovkino Country Soviet Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directed by Fridrikh ErmlerEduard Ioganson Written by Mikhail BorisoglebskyBoris Leonidov Release date December 25, 1926 (1926-12-25) Production company State Committee for Cinematography Similar Fragment of an Empire, Shinel, Counterplan, The Great Citizen, The Devil's Wheel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
katka s reinette apples 1926
Katka's Reinette Apples (Russian: Катька бумажный ранет, Katka-bumazhnyy ranet) is a 1926 Soviet silent drama film directed by Fridrikh Ermler and Eduard Ioganson.
Contents
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 bad crowd by associating with the thief Syomka Zhgut (Valery Solovtsov). The girl earns money by selling Reinette apples for living and for the purchase of a new cow. Soon Katya becomes pregnant and then gives birth to a child from Syomka. 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.