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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Bibliography[edit]

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

External links[edit]

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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