Simple People (1945)

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.

• Release Date: 1945-12-31
• Runtime: 1h 14min
• Directors: Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg.