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The Magpie (1959)

★ 10.0/10 78 min Drama Soviet Union Russian
Novel: Aleksandr Gertsen
Writer: Nikolai Kovarsky
Script Editor: German Groshev
Script Consultant: V. Poznanskiy
Streaming: Not available

Description

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...

Top Cast

Zinaida Kirienko
Zinaida Kirienko Aneta
Nikolai Afanasyev
Nikolai Afanasyev Shchepin
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Vladimir Pokrovskiy Knyaz
Viktor Korshunov
Viktor Korshunov Stepan
Anatoliy Kubatskiy
Anatoliy Kubatskiy Ugryumov
Sergei Kalinin manager
Aleksandr Grave
Aleksandr Grave successor
Nikolai Shamin
Nikolai Shamin landlord

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