

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.
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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

Vladimir Shishkin
Dezdemonov

Gennadi Zaichkin
Shchyogolev

Aleksei Gribov
Ivan Ivanovich
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