Your Acquaintance () is a 1927 Soviet short silent drama film directed by Lev Kuleshov and starring Aleksandra Khokhlova, Pyotr Galadzhev and Yuri Vasilchikov.Christie & Taylor p.434 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
Bibliography Christie, Ian & Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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