In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.
Cast
Yelena Kuzmina
Anna
Faina Ranevskaya
Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
Vladimir Solovyov
Vasil, Anna's brother
Valentin Shcheglov
Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)
Arkadi Kislyakov
Lazar Skorokhod
Ada Vojtsik
Vanda
Mikhail Astangov
Stanislav Komorovsky
Mikhail Bolduman
Zygmunt Dombek
Rostislav Plyatt
Yanek, cabdriver
Nikolai Orlov
Old weaver
Viktor Lazarev
Unknown
Yelena Anufriyeva
Anna's mother
Crew
Mikhail Romm
Director, Writer
Yevgeni Gabrilovich
Writer
Yeva Ladyzhenskaya
Editor
Boris Volchek
Director of Photography
Era Savelyeva
Additional Director of Photography
Tatyana Berezantseva
First Assistant Director
G. Soluyanov
Second Assistant Director
Isidor Simkov
Assistant Director
Evgeny Aron
Assistant Director
Nikolay Privezentsev
Executive Producer
Vladimir Kaplunovskiy
Production Design
M. Albetkov
Assistant Camera
I. Davydov
Assistant Camera
Konstantin Efimov
Costume Design
S. Raevskiy
Makeup & Hair
Ye. Shakon
Makeup Artist
Vyacheslav Leshchyov
Sound Director
Yevgeni Kashkevich
Sound Director
Henry Vars
Original Music Composer
P. Obolenskiy
Assistant Production Manager
A. Arakelyan
Administration
