
In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.

as Anna

as Madame Rosa Skorokhodova

as Vasil, Anna's brother

as Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)

as Lazar Skorokhod

as Vanda

as Stanislav Komorovsky

as Zygmunt Dombek

as Yanek, cabdriver

as Old weaver


as Anna's mother

as Vasil's friend (uncredited)