This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Cast
Svetlana Toma
Rada
Grigore Grigoriu
Zobar
Ion Sandri Scurea
Siladi
Pavel Andreichenko
Talimon
Sergiu Finiti
Bubulia
Lyalya Chyornaya
old gipsy woman
Boryslav Brondukov
Bucha
Nelli Volshaninova
Rusalina
Vsevolod Gavrilov
Danilo
Mikhail Shishkov
Nur
Nikolai Volshaninov
Aralambi
Vasyl Symchych
Balint
Elena Sadovskaïa
Yulishka
Gheorghe Dimitriu
Zobar's father
Belash Vishnevsky
old gypsy
Alyona Buzylyova
little gypsy
Dumitru Mocanu
Unknown
Oleg Khabalov
episode
Gabriel Chibotaru
episode
Bronius Jauniškis
episode
Zita Martsinkevich
episode
Dmitriy Buzylyov-Kretso
episode
Mikhail Buzylyov-Kretso
episode
Steponas Kosmauskas
episode
Vytautas Eidukaitis
episode
E. Negrua
episode
Viktor Buzylev
episode
Yuri Eremenko
episode
Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya
episode
Nikolay Zhemchuzhnyy
episode
Valentina Brazhnik
episode
Zoya Tsurilo
episode
V. Bogar
episode
Algirdas Pintukas
episode
I. Gasnyuk
episode
Yefim Lazarev
episode
Aleksandr Teplov
episode
A. Savickas
episode
Raisa Ene
episode
D. Golomboshi
episode
S. Zhelmanov
episode
Leonas Stanevičius
episode
Barasbi Mulayev
episode (uncredited)
Lyalya Mihai
episode (uncredited)
Ganga Battalova
episode (uncredited)
Antanas Kurklietis
episode (uncredited)
Eugenia Botnaru
episode (uncredited)
Kima Buzylev
episode (uncredited)
Vadim Vilskiy
episode (uncredited)
Aleksandr Savelev
episode (uncredited)
Stanislav Tabero
episode (uncredited)
Emil Loteanu
episode (uncredited)
Crew
Emil Loteanu
Director, Writer
V. Dyachenko
Script Editor
Maxim Gorky
Novel
Nina Vasilyeva
Editor
Sergey Vronsky
Director of Photography
S. Nikitin
First Assistant Director
Ye. Ilyinov
First Assistant Director
T. Tavrizyan
Assistant Director
T. Zhidkova
Assistant Director
Sh. Bulicanu
Assistant Director
A. Panov
Assistant Director
Sergey Vulman
Executive Producer
Feliks Yasyukevich
Production Design
Vladimir Kromas
Camera Operator
B. Shirokov
Assistant Camera
V. Chimendrikov
Assistant Camera
Sergey Kocheburov
Assistant Camera
Mikael Antonyan
Costume Design
Vsevolod Zhelmanov
Makeup & Hair
Mark Bronshteyn
Sound Director
Viktor Babushkin
Sound Recordist
B. Larionov
Lighting Artist
Albert Rudachenko
VFX Supervisor
Boris Travkin
VFX Director of Photography
Eugen Doga
Original Music Composer
Arseniy Lapisov
Music Editor
S. Kazantsev
Set Designer
Boris Timkovsky
Still Photographer
Pavel Andreichenko
Choreographer
Nikolay Zhemchuzhnyy
Playback Singer
Nikolai Volshaninov
Playback Singer
Rada Volshaninova
Playback Singer
Zhenya Savelyeva
Playback Singer
Alyona Buzylyova
Playback Singer
Tahir Bobrov
Playback Singer
Zinaida Antonova
Playback Singer
Dmitriy Buzylyov-Kretso
Playback Singer
Lyalya Mihai
Playback Singer
Martyn Nersesyan
Conductor
