While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
Cast
Crew
Yakov Protazanov
Director, Writer
Fyodor Otsep
Writer
Alexander Pushkin
Short Story
Yevgeni Slavinsky
Director of Photography
Georg Asagaroff
Assistant Director
Vladimir Ballyuzek
Production Design
S. Lilienberg
Production Design
Valeriy Pschibytnevskiy
Production Design
Nikolay Vorobyev
Costume Design
Aleksey Shargalin
Makeup & Hair
Joseph N. Ermolieff
Production Manager
