The Magpie

The Magpie — Plot

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...

• Release date
• April 7, 1959
• Runtime
• 78 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Naum Trakhtenberg

The Magpie — Cast

Zinaida Kirienko Aneta Nikolai Afanasyev Shchepin Vladimir Pokrovskiy Knyaz Viktor Korshunov Stepan Anatoliy Kubatskiy Ugryumov

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Sergei Kalinin manager Aleksandr Grave successor Nikolai Shamin landlord