The Magpie (1959)
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...
Director: Naum Trakhtenberg
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Zinaida Kirienko as Aneta |
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Nikolai Afanasyev as Shchepin |
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Vladimir Pokrovskiy as Knyaz |
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Viktor Korshunov as Stepan |
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Anatoliy Kubatskiy as Ugryumov |
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Sergei Kalinin as manager |
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Aleksandr Grave as successor |
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Nikolai Shamin as landlord |
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Viktor Koltsov as authorized director of the Imperial Theaters |
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Ivan Lobyzovskiy as Knyaz's hairdresser |
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Pyotr Kiryutkin as prompter (uncredited) |
| Writing | Aleksandr Gertsen | Novel |
| Directing | Naum Trakhtenberg | Director |
| Editing | Lyudmila Feiginova | Editor |
| Camera | Mark Dyatlov | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Valeriya Nisskaya | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Iya Perminova | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Valeriya Nisskaya | Production Design |
| Sound | Vasily Dekhteryov | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Nikolai Kovarsky | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dilyara Ozerova | Costume Design |
| Sound | E. Zelentsova | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | German Shimkovich | VFX Director of Photography |
| Writing | German Groshev | Script Editor |
| Writing | V. Poznanskiy | Script Consultant |
| Sound | Veronika Dudarova | Conductor |
| Production | Naum Polyak | Executive Producer |
| Production | G. Oganesov | Executive Producer |
