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Your Acquaintance

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Your Acquaintance
Directed byLev Kuleshov
Written byAleksandr Kurs
CinematographyKonstantin Kuznetsov
Edited byLev Kuleshov
Production
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Release date
  • 25 October 1927 (1927-10-25)
CountrySoviet Union
Languages

Your Acquaintance (Russian: Ваша знакомая, romanizedVasha znakomaya) is a 1927 Soviet short silent drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Aleksandra Khokhlova, Pyotr Galadzhev and Yuri Vasilchikov.[1][2] Only a fragment of the film still survives.

The film's art direction was by Vasili Rakhals and Alexander Rodchenko.

Plot

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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."

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Christie & Taylor p.434
  2. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 234.

Bibliography

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  • Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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