Behind the Footlights

Directed by Konstantin Yudin
1956    84mComedy, Drama
6.77.5
Russian Empire, the middle of the XIX century. Aged, beggar dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin, in search of work, wanders through the cities with his young daughter Liza. They dream that Lisa someday will succeed on stage and become a famous actress.

Where to Watch Behind the Footlights

  • Vasili MerkuryevLev Gurych Sinichkin
  • Liliya YudinaLiza Sinichkina
  • Tatyana KarpovaRaisa Surmilova
  • Nikolai AfanasyevSerge Vetrinsky
  • Mikhail YanshinFyodor Borzikov
  • Yuri LyubimovGraf Zefirov
  • Sergei BlinnikovPyotr Pustoslavtsev
  • Stanislav ChekanStepan
  • Aleksandr Sashin-NikolskyPrompter
  • Grigori AbrikosovKozachinsky
  • Pyotr RepninNalimov
  • Yuriy YakovlevChakhotkin
  • Vladimir TroshinTimchenko
  • Anna Shilova
  • Yelena Savitskaya
  • Konstantin YudinDirector
  • Mikhail VolpinWriter
  • Nikolay ErdmanWriter
  • Valentin ZakharovDirector Of Photography
  • Igor GeleinDirector Of Photography

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