Talents and Admirers

Negina, a popular but poor actress, receives lessons from her fiancé Meluzov. Prince Dulebov, intending to take advantage of the girl's dire circumstances, suggests sponsorship, gets refused and becomes spiteful. Despite the latter's intrigues, Negina's benefice performance is triumphant and she receives a large sum of money, part of which Dulebov himself has to provide to keep his face. Still, the entrepreneur refuses to prolong her contract. One after another ecstatic admires come to her expressing their affection, among them Narokov, Naluzov and Velikatov. She leaves honest but dull Meluzov and goes away with rich Velikatov, motivated not by greed but by the desire to work on stage, the only thing she is really in love with.
Cast

Olga Khorkova
Domna Panteleevna

Svetlana Pelikhovskaya
Aleksandra Negina

Nikolai Gritsenko
prince Irakli Saratonovich Dulebov

Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Ivan Semenovich Bakin

Leonid Gubanov
Ivan Semenovich Velikatov

Vladimir Bogin
Pyotr Yegorovich Meluzov

Nonna Terentyeva
Nina Vasilievna Smelskaya

Yevgeni Lebedev
Martyn Prokofievich Narokov

Yuriy Sarantsev
Gavrilo Petrovich Migayev

Grigori Abrikosov
Erast Gromilov

Mikhail Bocharov
Unknown

Pyotr Savin
Unknown

Ariadna Shengelaia
Unknown

Rudolf Pankov
Vasya
Viktoriya Chernakova
girl
P. Ermakov
Unknown
Ivan Mochalov
Unknown
Vladimir Kabatchenko
Unknown
Crew

Isidor Annensky
Director, Writer
Lidiya Zhuchkova
Editor
Mikhail Kirillov
Director of Photography
Natan Gofman
Producer
Grigori Kupershmidt
Producer
Yuri Proskurin
Producer
Noi Senderov
Production Design
Galina Kazakova
Production Design

Tikhon Khrennikov
Music

Aleksandr Chaykovskiy
Music

Alexander Ostrovsky
Theatre Play