Behind the Footlights

Russian Empire, the middle of the XIX century. Aged, beggar dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin, in search of work, wanders through the cities with his young daughter Liza. They dream that Lisa someday will succeed on stage and become a famous actress.

• Mikhail VolpinWriter
• Konstantin YudinDirector
• Nikolay ErdmanWriter

• Vasili MerkuryevLev Gurych Sinichkin
• Liliya YudinaLiza Sinichkina
• Tatyana KarpovaRaisa Surmilova
• Nikolai AfanasyevSerge Vetrinsky
• Mikhail YanshinFyodor Borzikov
• Yuri LyubimovGraf Zefirov
• Sergei BlinnikovPyotr Pustoslavtsev
• Stanislav ChekanStepan
• Aleksandr Sashin-NikolskyPrompter
• Grigori AbrikosovKozachinsky
• Pyotr RepninNalimov
• Yuriy YakovlevChakhotkin