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Katka's Reinette Apples

192674 minSoviet Union
Drama

Synopsis

After her family's cow dies, Katya leaves the countryside to earn money in Leningrad. Selling apples offers a precarious living, and her relationship with a thief leaves her with a child and little security. Meeting a homeless, educated man creates another unexpected connection as she tries to build a household in the unfamiliar city.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
108:47
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No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Fridrikh Ermler · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsFridrikh ErmlerEduard Ioganson

Historical context

Ermler and Ioganson place rural migration, informal street trade and poverty within a story of personal survival. Katya's original practical goal of buying a cow becomes entangled with the responsibilities and relationships she acquires in the city.

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