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Status
Released
Release
1954
Runtime
1h 22m
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Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.
23 Cast Members
Alla Larionova
Anna Soboleva
Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
Pyotr Sobolev
Pyotr Maltsev
Petya
Aleksandr Metyolkin
Andryusha
Vladimir Vladislavskiy
Modest Alexeyevich
Mikhail Zharov
Artynov
Aleksandr Vertinsky
Prince
Natalya Belyovtseva
Princess
Irina Murzayeva
Mavra Grigoryevna
Vladimir Shishkin
Dezdemonov
Gennadi Zaichkin
Shchyogolev
Aleksei Gribov
Ivan Ivanovich
Irina Murzayeva
Mavra Grigor'yevna
Tatyana Pankova
Agrafena Semonovna, portnikha
Galina Frolova
dama v kioske
Georgy Gumilevsky
bufetchik v teatre
Mikhail Shishkov
tsygan
Aleksandr Rumnyov
rasporyaditel' na balu
Aleksandr Zhukov
lackey
Vladimir Uralskiy
Coachman
