The Magpie (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...

• Release Date: 1959-04-07
• Runtime: 1h 18min
• Production Company: Mosfilm
• Production Country: Soviet Union
• Director: Naum Trakhtenberg