The Magpie (1959)
Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her lover — a young actor of the troupe — to the soldiers for twenty-five years. After much deliberation, Shchepin decides to help the girl, but is too late...
The MagpieDrama
Cast
- Zinaida Kirienko — Aneta
- Nikolai Afanasyev — Shchepin
- Vladimir Pokrovskiy — Knyaz
- Viktor Korshunov — Stepan
- Anatoliy Kubatskiy — Ugryumov
- Sergei Kalinin — manager
- Aleksandr Grave — successor
- Nikolai Shamin — landlord
- Viktor Koltsov — authorized director of the Imperial Theaters
- Ivan Lobyzovskiy — Knyaz's hairdresser
- Pyotr Kiryutkin — prompter (uncredited)
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