The read
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Critics rate it 25 points higher than audiences do.
62 audience votes
Key crew
- Thorold DickinsonDirector
- Rodney AcklandWriter
- Arthur BoysWriter
- Georges AuricOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Anton WalbrookCapt. Herman Suvorin
- Edith EvansThe Old Countess Ranevskaya
- Yvonne MitchellLizavetta Ivanova
- Ronald HowardAndrei
- Mary JerroldOld Varvarushka
- Anthony DawsonFyodor
- Miles MallesonTchybukin
- Michael MedwinHovaisky
- Athene SeylerPrincess Ivashin
- Ivor BarnardBookseller
- Aubrey MallalieuFedya
- Maroussia DimitrevitchGypsy Singer