# Simple People

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{{short description|1945 film by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Simple People
| image          = 
 
| caption        = 
| director       = [Grigori Kozintsev](/source/Grigori_Kozintsev)<br>[Leonid Trauberg](/source/Leonid_Trauberg)
| producer       = 
| writer         = [Grigori Kozintsev](/source/Grigori_Kozintsev)<br>[Leonid Trauberg](/source/Leonid_Trauberg)
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [Yuri Tolubeyev](/source/Yuri_Tolubeyev)
| music          = [Dmitri Shostakovich](/source/Dmitri_Shostakovich)
| cinematography = [Andrei Moskvin](/source/Andrei_Moskvin)<br>[Anatoli Nazarov](/source/Anatoli_Nazarov) 	
| editing        = V. Mironova
| distributor    = 
| studio         = [Lenfilm](/source/Lenfilm)
| released       = {{Film date|1956}}
| runtime        = 2,147 meters (approx. 68 minutes)
| country        = Soviet Union
| language       = Russian
| budget         = 
}}

'''''Simple People''''' ({{langx|ru|Простые люди}}) is a 1945 [Soviet](/source/cinema_of_Russia) war romance film directed by [Grigori Kozintsev](/source/Grigori_Kozintsev) and [Leonid Trauberg](/source/Leonid_Trauberg). The film, along with the second part of [Eisenstein](/source/Sergei_Eisenstein)'s [Ivan the Terrible](/source/Ivan_the_Terrible_(1944_film)) was harshly criticized by [Andrei Zhdanov](/source/Andrei_Zhdanov) and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during [Khrushchev Thaw](/source/Khrushchev_Thaw), was disowned by Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.

==Plot==
As Nazi forces advance toward Leningrad, the last plane departs from an aviation factory's airfield, and the factory is slated for evacuation. Workers, including elderly men, women, and teenagers, journey across the country to distant Uzbekistan, while the skilled workforce fights on the front lines. Despite challenges, the factory is expected to begin producing planes within two months.  

Upon arrival, the evacuees set up machinery under open skies and begin working, joined by thousands of new recruits, many grieving the loss of loved ones. The factory director, Yeremin, endures his own tragedy: his wife goes missing during the evacuation. Despite the personal blow, Yeremin tirelessly oversees every aspect of the factory's operations, ensuring progress. His resilience is rewarded when he reunites with his wife, who had suffered captivity and lost her health and memory during the German occupation.  

Under the care of doctors, she recovers, and on the day the factory produces its first aircraft, she is discharged from the hospital. Together with Yeremin and the entire factory team, she shares the joy of this labor triumph.
==Cast==
* [Yuri Tolubeyev](/source/Yuri_Tolubeyev) - Yeryemin
* Olga Lebzak - Yeryemina
* [Boris Zhukovsky](/source/Boris_Zhukovsky) - Makeev
* F. Babadzhanov - Akbashev
* [Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya](/source/Yekaterina_Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya) - grandmother
* I. Kudryavtseva - Varvara
* Larisa Yemelyantseva - Sasha
* Vladimir Kolchin - Ivanov
* [Tatyana Pelttser](/source/Tatyana_Pelttser) - Plaksina
* Anatoli Chiryev - Romka
* Aleksandr Larikov - Kizlyakov
* Konstantin Adashevky - the cook

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0038860|title=Simple People}}

{{Dmitri Shostakovich}}
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Category:1945 films
Category:1945 war films
Category:1940s war romance films
Category:1940s war drama films
Category:1945 romantic drama films
Category:1945 Soviet films
Category:1945 Russian-language films
Category:Soviet war drama films
Category:War romance films
Category:Soviet romantic drama films
Category:Soviet black-and-white films
Category:Soviet World War II films
Category:Films directed by Grigori Kozintsev
Category:Films directed by Leonid Trauberg
Category:Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich
Category:Lenfilm films
Category:Russian-language war drama films
Category:Russian-language romantic drama films

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