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
Anna Soboleva
Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
Pyotr Sobolev
Pyotr Maltsev
Petya
Aleksandr Metyolkin
Andryusha
Vladimir Vladislavskiy
Modest Alexeyevich
Mikhail Zharov
Artynov
Aleksandr Vertinsky
Prince
Natalya Belyovtseva
Princess
Irina Murzayeva
Mavra Grigoryevna, Mavra Grigor'yevna
Vladimir Shishkin
Dezdemonov
Gennadi Zaichkin
Shchyogolev
Aleksei Gribov
Ivan Ivanovich
Tatyana Pankova
Agrafena Semonovna, portnikha
Galina Frolova
dama v kioske
George Gumilevsky
bufetchik v teatre
Mikhail Shishkov
tsygan
Aleksandr Rumnyov
rasporyaditel' na balu
Aleksandr Zhukov
lackey
Vladimir Uralskiy
Coachman
Crew
Isidor Annensky
Director, Screenplay
Anton Chekhov
Book
Raisa Shor
Editor
George Reysgof
Director of Photography
M. Volodin
First Assistant Director
T. Kunitskaya
Second Assistant Director
Mariya Fyodorova
Assistant Director
Vladimir Rogovoy
Executive Producer
Aleksandr Dikhtyar
Production Design
V. Chibisov
Camera Operator
Konstantin Urbetis
Costume Design
A. Tolkunova
Makeup & Hair
Dmitri Flyangolts
Sound
A. Krylov
VFX Supervisor
V. Osminkina
VFX Director of Photography
Lev Shvarts
Original Music Composer
Galina Shakhovskaya
Choreographer
