The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket — Plot

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.

• Release date
• February 7, 1928
• Runtime
• 80 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Fyodor Otsep

The Yellow Ticket — Cast

Anna Sten Maria, young farmer's wife Ivan Koval-Samborskiy Jacob Sofya Yakovleva Katerina Mikhail Narokov Belsky Anel Sudakevich Anya, Belsky's daughter Vladimir Fogel Anya's husband Pyotr Baksheyev Doorman Nikolai Batalov Maria's countryman