Drama from the Old Life (1971)
A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment. Based on Nikolai Leskov's short story "The Toupee Artist".
Director: Ilya Averbakh
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Yelena Solovey as |
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Yevgeni Perov as |
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Sofya Pavlova as |
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Lyudmila Arinina as |
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Rasmi Dzhabrailov as |
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Feliks Antipov as |
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Aleksandr Demyanenko as |
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Aleksandr Afanasev as |
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Viktor Ilichyov as |
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Nikolay Kuzmin as |
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Pyotr Merkuryev as |
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Lyudmila Staritsyna as |
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Roman Filippov as |
| Writing | Vladimir Belyaev | Writer |
| Camera | Dmitri Meskhiyev | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Ilya Averbakh | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marina Azizyan | Costume Design |
| Writing | Ilya Averbakh | Writer |
| Writing | Nikolai Leskov | Short Story |
| Art | Evgeny Eney | Production Design |
| Art | Marina Azizyan | Production Design |
| Sound | Mikhail Lazarev | Sound Director |
| Sound | Oleg Karavaichuk | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Vsevolod Schwarts | Script Editor |
| Directing | Ya. Nakhamchuk | Assistant Director |
| Camera | A. Gorkov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Anatoly Taborov | Camera Operator |
| Editing | R. Shvarts | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | A. Skvortsova | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Yuri Pugach | Set Decoration |
| Art | Olga Kokovkina | Set Decoration |
| Editing | Galina Kornilova | Assistant Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Sharshilina | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Camera | A. Romanov | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Viktor Aristov | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | I. Mochalova | First Assistant Director |
| Production | Grigoriy Didenko | Executive Producer |