The Magpie

The Magpie

78 mins | Drama | April 7, 1959

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...

The Magpie

78 mins | Drama | April 7, 1959

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...
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Сорока-воровка
Directors Naum Trakhtenberg
Writers Aleksandr Gertsen, Nikolai Kovarsky

Cast

Zinaida Kirienko

as Aneta

Nikolai Afanasyev

as Shchepin

Viktor Korshunov

as Stepan

Anatoli Kubatsky

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

Pyotr Kiryutkin

as prompter (uncredited)