The Magpie
1959 · 78 min
Drama
★ 10.0Aneta, 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...
Crew
- Director Naum Trakhtenberg
- Writer Nikolai Kovarsky
- Director of Photography Mark Dyatlov
Cast
Zinaida Kirienko
Aneta
Nikolai Afanasyev
Shchepin
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Knyaz
Viktor Korshunov
Stepan
Anatoliy Kubatskiy
Ugryumov
- S
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
- Director — Naum Trakhtenberg
- Writer — Nikolai Kovarsky
- Director of Photography — Mark Dyatlov
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