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.
as Anna Soboleva
as Pyotr Sobolev
as Petya
as Andryusha
as Modest Alexeyevich
as Artynov
as Prince
as Princess
as Mavra Grigoryevna
as Dezdemonov
as Shchyogolev
as Ivan Ivanovich
as Mavra Grigor'yevna
as Agrafena Semonovna, portnikha
as dama v kioske
as bufetchik v teatre
as tsygan
as rasporyaditel' na balu
as lackey
as Coachman
as Official
as Gentleman in the ballroom (uncredited)
