Top Cast
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Olga Bystritskaya
Margarita, Garin's wife
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Tani Yun
Sarpige, Zora
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Andrey Fayt
Garin, the landowner
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Ivan Slobodskoy
Melnik, Zora's father
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Ioakim Maksimov-Koshkinskiy
Svat, the matchmaker
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Vsevolod Massino
Zoraim
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Grigori Levkoyev
Ivashka, the blacksmith
Overview
Based on Nikolay Garin Mikhailovsky's work Zora, which tells about the struggle of Chuvash peasants against the landowners.
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