Film
The Magpie
1959 · 1h 18m · Drama
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- 7.5
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Overview
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...
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)
Crew
- Naum TrakhtenbergDirector
- Nikolai KovarskyWriter
- Aleksandr GertsenNovel
- Naum PolyakExecutive Producer
- G. OganesovExecutive Producer
- Mark DyatlovDirector of Photography
- Vasily DekhteryovOriginal Music Composer
- Lyudmila FeiginovaEditor
Details
- Release date
- April 7, 1959
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Drama
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