Directed by Lev Kuleshov Edited by Lev Kuleshov Country Soviet Union Director Lev Kuleshov | Written by Aleksandr Kurs Release date 25 October 1927 Initial release 1927 Cinematography Konstantin Kuznetsov | |
Language Silent
Russian intertitles Production company State Committee for Cinematography Similar The Doll With Millions, Ansel Adams: A Documen, Godkiller, The Yellow Cab Man, Lady Godiva Rides | ||
1927 your acquaintance fragment
Your Acquaintance (Russian: Ваша знакомая, Vasha znakomaya) is a 1927 Soviet short silent drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Aleksandra Khokhlova, Pyotr Galadzhev and Yuri Vasilchikov. Only a fragment of the film still survives.
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The film's art direction was by Vasili Rakhals and Alexander Rodchenko.
Plot
The film is set in Moscow, during the years of the NEP. Journalist Khokhlova falls in love with Petrovsky, a responsible officer at an industrial plant. This infatuation has a negative impact on her work and the girl is fired. Meanwhile Petrovsky's wife returns. This situation reveals the true nature of the lover who is an egoist and a vulgarian. The girl is near suicide however the tragic denouement is prevented by Vasilchikov who has been in love with the journalist for a long time, a modest editor of the department "Working inventions."