The Magpie

The Magpie

Aneta, the serf actress of Knyaz Skalinsky, amazes with her beauty and talented performance of Shchepin. After the performance, a frank conversation ensues between them. The interlocutor learns that Skalinsky, pursuing the actress for a long time, gave her lover — a young actor of the troupe — to the soldiers for twenty-five years. After much deliberation, Shchepin decides to help the girl, but is too late...

Top Cast

Zinaida Kirienko

As Aneta

Nikolai Afanasyev

As Shchepin

Vladimir Pokrovskiy

As Knyaz

Viktor Korshunov

As Stepan

Anatoliy Kubatskiy

As Ugryumov

Sergei Kalinin

As manager

Aleksandr Grave

As successor

Nikolai Shamin

As landlord

Viktor Koltsov

As authorized director of the Imperial Theaters

Ivan Lobyzovskiy

As Knyaz's hairdresser