A Simple Case
Plot: As a response to criticism for the allegedly excessive “mass appeal” of his earlier epic STORM OVER ASIA (1928), Vsevolod Pudovkin unleashed his flair for experimentation in what was supposed to be the director’s first sound feature. Everything went wrong: technical problems forced him to complete the film as a silent; viewers were baffled by the lack of a recognizable plot; then, the ideological climate of the Soviet Union changed

Aleksandr Baturin
Yevgeniya Rogulina
Ivan Novoseltsev
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Vladimir Uralskiy
Fyodor Ivanov
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Mikhail Doller