

82 minutes
5/13/1954
Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.

Alla Larionova
as Anna Soboleva

Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
as Pyotr Sobolev

Pyotr Maltsev
as Petya

Aleksandr Metyolkin
as Andryusha

Vladimir Vladislavskiy
as Modest Alexeyevich

Mikhail Zharov
as Artynov

Aleksandr Vertinsky
as Prince

Natalya Belyovtseva
as Princess

Irina Murzayeva
as Mavra Grigoryevna

Vladimir Shishkin
as Dezdemonov

Gennadi Zaichkin
as Shchyogolev

Aleksei Gribov
as Ivan Ivanovich

Irina Murzayeva
as Mavra Grigor'yevna

Tatyana Pankova
as Agrafena Semonovna, portnikha

Galina Frolova
as dama v kioske

George Gumilevsky
as bufetchik v teatre

Mikhail Shishkov
as tsygan

Aleksandr Rumnyov
as rasporyaditel' na balu
Aleksandr Zhukov
as lackey

Vladimir Uralskiy
as Coachman