The Magpie

Directed by Naum Trakhtenberg
April 7, 1959    78mDrama
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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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  • Zinaida KirienkoAneta
  • Nikolai AfanasyevShchepin
  • Vladimir PokrovskiyKnyaz
  • Viktor KorshunovStepan
  • Anatoliy KubatskiyUgryumov
  • Sergei Kalininmanager
  • Aleksandr Gravesuccessor
  • Nikolai Shaminlandlord
  • Viktor Koltsovauthorized director of the Imperial Theaters
  • Ivan LobyzovskiyKnyaz's hairdresser
  • Pyotr Kiryutkinprompter (uncredited)
  • Naum TrakhtenbergDirector
  • Aleksandr GertsenNovel
  • Nikolai KovarskyWriter
  • Naum PolyakExecutive Producer
  • G. OganesovExecutive Producer
  • Valeriya NisskayaProduction Design / Costume Design
  • Mark DyatlovDirector Of Photography
  • Iya PerminovaMakeup Artist
  • Dilyara OzerovaCostume Design

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