Simple People

War

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Grigori Kozintsev

Status Released

Release Date 1945-12-31

Storyline

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.