Your Acquaintance

Your Acquaintance
Your Acquaintance
Directed by	Lev Kuleshov
Written by	Aleksandr Kurs
Cinematography	Konstantin Kuznetsov
Edited by	Lev Kuleshov
Production; company	Sovkino
Release date	25 October 1927;
Country	Soviet Union
Languages	Silent; Russian intertitles;

Your Acquaintance (Russian: Ваша знакомая, romanized: Vasha 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

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

Aleksandra Khokhlova as Khokhlova - journalist
Pyotr Galadzhev as Secretary
Yuri Vasilchikov as Vasilchikov
Boris Ferdinandov as Petrovski
Anna Chekulaeva as Petrovsky's wife
Aleksandr Gromov as Typographer

References

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

Bibliography

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

External links

Your Acquaintance at IMDb

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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.

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