Masquerade (1941)
Taken from a Lermontov play, the story begins when beautiful Nina loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.
Director: Sergei Gerasimov
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Nikolai Mordvinov as Arbenin |
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Tamara Makarova as Nina |
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Mikhail Sadovsky as Knyaz Zvezdich |
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Sofiya Magarill as Baroness Shtral |
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Antonin Pankryshev as |
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Lyubov Sokolova as |
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Sergei Gerasimov as |
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Boris Feodosyev as Officer |
| Costume & Make-Up | P. Gorokhov | Costume Design |
| Directing | Sergei Gerasimov | Director |
| Writing | Sergei Gerasimov | Writer |
| Art | Semyon Meynkin | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yevgenia Slovtsova | Costume Design |
| Camera | Vyacheslav Gardanov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Venedict Pushkov | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Mikhail Lermontov | Theatre Play |
| Camera | Moisey Magid | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Lev Sokolsky | Camera Operator |
| Art | Vladimir Kalyagin | Production Illustrator |
| Editing | Ye. Radionova | Editor |
| Production | Mikhail Levin | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Emil Gal | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Grigori Sarkisov | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | V. Spasskaya | Third Assistant Director |
| Sound | Zakhar Zalkind | Sound Director |
| Sound | Konstantin Gordon | Sound Director |
| Crew | V. Chesnakov | Choreographer |
| Writing | Boris Eykhenbaum | Script Consultant |
| Writing | Vladislav Glinka | Script Consultant |
