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In the first years of NEP, one of the committees Relief for Starving evacuates an orphan girl Mariika from a starving village into a city. Mariika runs away on the way over.
In the first years of NEP, one of the committees Relief for Starving evacuates an orphan girl Mariika from a starving village into a city. Mariika runs away on the way over.
Irina Insarova
Mariika
Vasyl Liudvynskyi
Tyshko, Pioneer
Valentina Vadalskaya
Katia, Mariika's Sister
Konstantin Milyutin-Savich
Vaska, Thief
Sofiia Darling
Klavdiia, Brothel Keeper
Stepan Vasyutinskiy
Yosyp, Crippled Man
Sofiia Piletska
Froska
Yaroslavskyi
Merchant
N. Sokolova
Maid
In the first years of NEP, one of the committees Relief for Starving evacuates an orphan girl Mariika from a starving village into a city. Mariika runs away on the way over.
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