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 Andreychenko
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
Unknown
Gabriel Chibotaru
Unknown
Bronius Jauniškis
Unknown
Zita Martsinkevich
Unknown
Dmitriy Buzylyov-Kretso
Unknown
Mikhail Buzylyov-Kretso
Unknown
Steponas Kosmauskas
Unknown
Vytautas Eidukaitis
Unknown
E. Negrua
Unknown
Viktor Buzylev
Unknown
Yuri Eremenko
Unknown
Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya
Unknown
Nikolay Zhemchuzhnyy
Unknown
Valentina Brazhnik
Unknown
Zoya Tsurilo
Unknown
V. Bogar
Unknown
Algirdas Pintukas
Unknown
I. Gasnyuk
Unknown
Yefim Lazarev
Unknown
Aleksandr Teplov
Unknown
A. Savickas
Unknown
Raisa Ene
Unknown
D. Golomboshi
Unknown
S. Zhelmanov
Unknown
Leonas Stanevičius
Unknown
Barasbi Mulayev
(uncredited)
Lyalya Mihai
(uncredited)
Ganga Battalova
(uncredited)
Antanas Kurklietis
(uncredited)
Eugenia Botnaru
(uncredited)
Kima Buzylev
(uncredited)
Vadim Vilskiy
(uncredited)
Aleksandr Savelev
(uncredited)
Stanislav Tabero
(uncredited)
Emil Loteanu
(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 Andreychenko
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
