Top Cast
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Yelena Kuzmina
Anna
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Faina Ranevskaya
Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
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Vladimir Solovyov
Vasil, Anna's brother
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Valentin Shcheglov
Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)
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Arkadi Kislyakov
Lazar Skorokhod
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Ada Vojtsik
Vanda
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Mikhail Astangov
Stanislav Komorovsky
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Mikhail Bolduman
Zygmunt Dombek
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Rostislav Plyatt
Yanek, cabdriver
Overview
In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.
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