The Queen of Spades (1982)
Hermann is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One night, Tomsky tells a story about his grandmother, an elderly countess. Many years ago, in France, she lost a fortune at cards, and then won it back with the secret of the three winning cards, which she learned from the notorious Count of St. Germain. Hermann becomes obsessed with obtaining the secret.
Director: Igor Maslennikov
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Viktor Proskurin as Germann |
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Irina Dymchenko as |
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Yelena Gogoleva as |
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Vitali Solomin as |
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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Chekalinsky |
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Konstantin Grigorev as |
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Alla Demidova as Voice |
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Aleksandr Zakharov as |
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Aleksei Zharkov as |
| Directing | Igor Maslennikov | Director |
| Writing | Aleksandr Shlepyanov | Writer |
| Camera | Yuriy Veksler | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Asya Zvereva | Sound |
| Writing | Alexander Pushkin | Short Story |
| Art | Isaak Kaplan | Production Design |
| Sound | Dmitri Bortnyansky | Original Music Composer |