The Yellow Ticket

The story

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.

Cast & crew

Anna StenMaria, young farmer's wife

Ivan Koval-SamborskiyJacob

Sofya YakovlevaKaterina

Mikhail NarokovBelsky

Anel SudakevichAnya, Belsky's daughter

Vladimir FogelAnya's husband

Pyotr BaksheyevDoorman

Nikolai BatalovMaria's countryman

Sofya LevitinaRich lady

Vera MaretskayaProstitute

Konstantin GradopolovCast

Porfiri PodobedCast