Overview
Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.
Cast
- Alla Larionova as Anna Soboleva
- Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky as Pyotr Sobolev
- Pyotr Maltsev as Petya
- Aleksandr Metyolkin as Andryusha
- Vladimir Vladislavskiy as Modest Alexeyevich
- Mikhail Zharov as Artynov
- Aleksandr Vertinsky as Prince
- Natalya Belyovtseva as Princess
- Irina Murzayeva as Mavra Grigoryevna
- Vladimir Shishkin as Dezdemonov