“Your acquaintance” (other names are “Journalist” , “Real Man” [1] ) is the Soviet silent black and white drama of 1927 directed by Lev Kuleshov . The premiere of the film took place on October 25, 1927. Only the second part of the film (17 minutes 34 seconds) was preserved [2] . Participant of the retrospective screening at the 57th Berlin Film Festival [3] .
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Lev Kuleshov |
| Author script | Alexander Course |
| In the main cast | Alexandra Khokhlova |
| Operator | Konstantin Kuznetsov |
| Film company | Sovkino |
| Duration | 17 minutes 34 sec (preserved fragment) |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian silent movie |
| Year | 1927 |
| IMDb | ID 0018533 |
Story
Moscow , NEP . The journalist Khokhlova had an affair with Petrovsky, an employee of an industrial plant. The man is married, and the girl in love with him has problems at work. Khokhlova is close to suicide, but editor Vasilchikov in love with her is trying to prevent a tragic outcome.
“Your acquaintance” is a “for three” tape, with an open love triangle, the top of which is a woman. Some critics called the film "an instruction for the director of a chamber film." Very accurate. Its human center is a woman who has preserved dignity, the ability to sincere, strong feelings, deceived and loyal to a man. Khokhlova, an honest, professional journalist, is also defeated on the "labor front" - having written an article on the activities of trade unions that does not suit the editorial board, she loses her job. Outwardly, she is not a heroine at all - awkward, absent-minded, funny. It will spill glue, then bread will begin to be cut with scissors, then, like a girl, it will slide down a strip of ice and, after running after a car, will fall on tram tracks. There is something of chaplin's in it, funny and sad, comic and dramatic.
- “ Irina Grashchenkova . Cinema Anthropology XX / 20. Moscow: Man, 2014, Page 8. ISBN 978-5-906131-49-2
Cast
- Alexandra Khokhlova - Khokhlova
- Peter Galadzhev - Secretary
- Yuri Vasilchikov - Vasilchikov
- Boris Ferdinandov - Petrovsky
- Anna Chekulaeva - wife of Petrovsky
- Alexander Gromov - printer
Camera crew
- Stage Director: Lev Kuleshov
- Script writer: Alexander Kurs
- Director of photography: Konstantin Kuznetsov
- Artists: Vasily Rakhals, Alexander Rodchenko
- Installation: Lev Kuleshov
Notes
Links
- “Your Friend” on the Internet Movie Database
- Alexander Khokhlova. Creative biography
- Moscow to the cinema. film "Your acquaintance" (Sovkino, 1927)
- Bleiman M. Yu. About cinema - testimony. - Moscow: Art, 1973. - 590 p. ; 20 cm. Page 81.
- Selezneva T.F. Kinomysl of the 1920s. - Leningrad: Art. Leningrad Otdel, 1972.- 184 p. ; 22 cm. Page 14.
- Gromov E.S. Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov. - M.: Art, 1984. - 321 p., 8 p. silt ; 21 cm. - (Series “Life in Art”). Page 212, 226, 279.
- PO ZAKONU (BY THE LAW) REVIEW by Anthony Nield
- “Your Friend” on youtube.com