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The Magpie
Released: April 7, 1959 (1959)
Runtime: 78 minutes
Genres: Drama
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...
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Nikolai Shamin as landlord
Age at release: 72
- Viktor Koltsov as authorized director of the Imperial Theaters
Age at release: 60
- Vladimir Pokrovskiy as Knyaz
Age at release: 58
- Anatoliy Kubatskiy as Ugryumov
Age at release: 50
- Nikolai Afanasyev as Shchepin
Age at release: 43
- Aleksandr Grave as successor
Age at release: 38
- Viktor Korshunov as Stepan
Age at release: 29
- Zinaida Kirienko as Aneta
Age at release: 25
- Sergei Kalinin as manager
Age at release: Unknown
- Ivan Lobyzovskiy as Knyaz's hairdresser
Age at release: Unknown
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- Pyotr Kiryutkin as prompter (uncredited)
Age at release: 63