
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)
