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Taken from a Lermontov play, the story begins when beautiful Nina loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.Read moreLess
Taken from a Lermontov play, the story begins when beautiful Nina loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.
The story
Taken from a Lermontov play, the story begins when beautiful Nina loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.
Cast & crew
Nikolai MordvinovArbenin
Tamara MakarovaNina
Mikhail SadovskyKnyaz Zvezdich
Sofiya MagarillBaroness Shtral
Antonin Pankryshev
Lyubov SokolovaCast
Sergei GerasimovCast
Boris FeodosyevOfficer
Dmitriy AndreevMasquerade ParticipantExplore the crew
- Director
- Sergei Gerasimov
- Writer
- Sergei Gerasimov
- Director of Photography
- Vyacheslav Gardanov
- Original Music Composer
- Venedict Pushkov
- Editor
- Ye. Radionova