The Magpie (1959)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 7, 1959Release Date
The Magpie (1959)
1h 18m
Running Time
April 7, 1959Release Date
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Plot.
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..
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Cast & Crew.
Zinaida Kirienko
Aneta
Nikolai Afanasyev
Shchepin
Vladimir Pokrovskiy
Knyaz
Viktor Korshunov
Stepan
Anatoli Kubatsky
Ugryumov
Sergei Kalinin
manager
Aleksandr Grave
successor
Nikolai Shamin
landlord
Viktor Koltsov
authorized director of the Imperial Theaters
Ivan Lobyzovskiy
Knyaz's hairdresser
Pyotr Kiryutkin
prompter (uncredited)
Aleksandr Gertsen
Novel
Naum Trakhtenberg
Director
Mark Dyatlov
Director of Photography
Lyudmila Feiginova
Editor
Valeriya Nisskaya
Costume Design / Production Design
Iya Perminova
Makeup Artist
Nikolai Kovarsky
Writer
Inna Zelentsova
Sound
Vasily Dekhterev
Original Music Composer
Dilyara Ozerova
Costume Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateApril 7, 1959
Original NameСорока-воровка
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 18m
Genres
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Wiki.
Thieving Magpie (Russian: Сорока-воровка) is a 1958 Soviet drama film directed by Naum Trakhtenberg, based on the novel with the same name by Alexander Herzen.
The film takes place in Russia in the first half of the 19th century. The film tells about the successful actor Shchepin, visiting the theater of Prince Skalinsky, where he meets a gifted actress named Aneta.