The Anna Cross

Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.

Director: Isidor Annensky

Cast: Alla Larionova, Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky, Pyotr Maltsev, Aleksandr Metyolkin, Vladimir Vladislavskiy, Mikhail Zharov, Aleksandr Vertinsky, Natalya Belyovtseva

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