The read
It runs a compact 1h 18m.
Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Naum TrakhtenbergDirector
- Vasily DekhteryovOriginal Music Composer
- Nikolai KovarskyWriter
Cast
- Zinaida KirienkoAneta
- Nikolai AfanasyevShchepin
- Vladimir PokrovskiyKnyaz
- Viktor KorshunovStepan
- Anatoliy KubatskiyUgryumov
- Sergei Kalininmanager
- Aleksandr Gravesuccessor
- Nikolai Shaminlandlord
- Viktor Koltsovauthorized director of the Imperial Theaters
- Ivan LobyzovskiyKnyaz's hairdresser
- Pyotr Kiryutkinprompter (uncredited)