The Magpie

(1959)

★ 10 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1959

Runtime: 79 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Наум Трахтенберг

Cast: Зинаида Кириенко, Николай Афанасьев, Владимир Покровский, Виктор Коршунов, Анатолий Кубацкий, Сергей Калинин, Александр Граве, Николай Шамин, Виктор Кольцов, Иван Лобызовский

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...