Katka's Reinette Apples

Katka's Reinette Apples
Directed by Fridrikh Ermler
Eduard Ioganson
Written by Mikhail Borisoglebsky
Boris Leonidov
Cinematography Yevgeni Mikhajlov
Andrei Moskvin
Production
company
Release date
  • December 25, 1926 (1926-12-25)
Running time
 74 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Silent
Russian intertitles

Katka's Reinette Apples (Russian: Катька бумажный ранет, translit. Katka-bumazhnyy ranet) is a 1926 Soviet silent drama film directed by Fridrikh Ermler and Eduard Ioganson.[1][2][3]

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

  • 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.
  4. 1 2 "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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