The Magpie

Directed by Naum Trakhtenberg
1959    78m
7.2
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...
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Cast of The Magpie
  • Zinaida KirienkoAneta
  • Nikolai AfanasyevShchepin
  • Vladimir PokrovskiyKnyaz
  • Viktor KorshunovStepan
  • Anatoli KubatskyUgryumov
  • Sergei Kalininmanager
  • Aleksandr Gravesuccessor
  • Nikolai Shaminlandlord
  • Viktor Koltsovauthorized director of the Imperial Theaters
  • Ivan LobyzovskiyKnyaz's hairdresser
  • Pyotr Kiryutkinprompter (uncredited)

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