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
Zinaida Kirienko
Aneta
Nikolai Afanasyev
Shchepin
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Knyaz
Viktor Korshunov
Stepan
Anatoliy Kubatskiy
Ugryumov
Sergei Kalinin
manager
Aleksandr Grave
successor
Nikolai Shamin
landlord
Viktor Koltsov
authorized director of the Imperial Theaters
Ivan Lobyzovskiy
Knyaz's hairdresser
Pyotr Kiryutkin
prompter (uncredited)
Crew
Naum Trakhtenberg
Director
Nikolai Kovarsky
Writer
German Groshev
Script Editor
Aleksandr Gertsen
Novel
Lyudmila Feiginova
Editor
Mark Dyatlov
Director of Photography
Naum Polyak
Executive Producer
G. Oganesov
Executive Producer
Valeriya Nisskaya
Production Design, Costume Design
Dilyara Ozerova
Costume Design
Iya Perminova
Makeup Artist
E. Zelentsova
Sound Director
German Shimkovich
VFX Director of Photography
Vasily Dekhteryov
Original Music Composer
V. Poznanskiy
Script Consultant
Veronika Dudarova
Conductor
