The Magpie

Die Geschichte

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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...

Besetzung

Z Zinaida KirienkoAneta N Nikolai AfanasyevShchepin V Vladimir PokrovskiyKnyaz V Viktor KorshunovStepan A Anatoliy KubatskiyUgryumov S Sergei Kalininmanager A Aleksandr Gravesuccessor N Nikolai Shaminlandlord V Viktor Koltsovauthorized director of the Imperial Theaters I Ivan LobyzovskiyKnyaz's hairdresser P Pyotr Kiryutkinprompter (uncredited)