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Drama from the Old Life

Drama from the Old Life

1971•1h 24m•8.7/10
Drama

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8.7/10(3)

A love story between a barber and a serf actress who find themselves in an environment that combines savagery with a veneer of enlightenment. Based on Nikolai Leskov's short story "The Toupee Artist".

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Production

Lenfilm, Pervoe Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Available in Your Library

Cast

Yelena Solovey

Yelena Solovey

Yevgeni Perov

Yevgeni Perov

Sofya Pavlova

Sofya Pavlova

Lyudmila Arinina

Lyudmila Arinina

Rasmi Dzhabrailov

Rasmi Dzhabrailov

Feliks Antipov

Feliks Antipov

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Aleksandr Demyanenko

Aleksandr Afanasev

Aleksandr Afanasev

Viktor Ilichyov

Viktor Ilichyov

Nikolay Kuzmin

Pyotr Merkuryev

Pyotr Merkuryev

Lyudmila Staritsyna

Lyudmila Staritsyna

Roman Filippov

Roman Filippov

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