The Magpie
1959Aneta, 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...
Acted in
Zinaida Kirienko
as Aneta
Nikolai Afanasyev
as Shchepin
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
as Knyaz
Viktor Korshunov
as Stepan
Anatoli Kubatsky
as Ugryumov
Sergei Kalinin
as manager
Aleksandr Grave
as successor
Nikolai Shamin
as landlord
Viktor Koltsov
as authorized director of the Imperial Theaters
Ivan Lobyzovskiy
as Knyaz's hairdresser
Pyotr Kiryutkin
as prompter (uncredited)