The Magpie

The story

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...

Cast & crew

Zinaida KirienkoAneta

Nikolai AfanasyevShchepin

Vladimir PokrovskiyKnyaz

Viktor KorshunovStepan

Anatoliy KubatskiyUgryumov

Sergei Kalinin

Sergei Kalininmanager

Aleksandr Gravesuccessor

Nikolai Shaminlandlord

Viktor Koltsovauthorized director of the Imperial Theaters

Ivan LobyzovskiyKnyaz's hairdresser

Pyotr Kiryutkinprompter (uncredited)