Masquerade
Directed by Sergei GerasimovThe story begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing who she is, gives it to an ardent cavalry officer admirer at the ball. This officer had earlier spent the evening learning how to gamble from Nina's husband Arbenin (Mordvinov). When the young officer shows the bracelet to Arbenin, he starts to suspect that he has been betrayed by his wife. The film depicts the effects of Arbenin's jealousy on everyone around the couple, leading to a quarrel with and calculated humiliation of the officer, Arbenin poisoning his wife, and finishing with a strange out of left field "I told you so" from someone who Arbenin had injured a decade earlier.
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Masquerade was released on September 16, 1941.
Masquerade was directed by Sergei Gerasimov.
Masquerade has a runtime of 1h 40m.
Masquerade was produced by Mikhail Levin.
The key characters in Masquerade are Arbenin (Nikolai Mordvinov), Nina (Tamara Makarova), Knyaz Zvezdich (Mikhail Sadovsky).
Masquerade is a Drama, History film.
Masquerade has an audience rating of 6.8 out of 10.