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The Magpie

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

    Sergei Kalinin

    manager

  • Aleksandr Grave

    Aleksandr Grave

    successor

  • Nikolai Shamin

    Nikolai Shamin

    landlord

  • Viktor Koltsov

    Viktor Koltsov

    authorized director of the Imperial Theaters

Overview

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...

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