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Ilya Averbakh Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh (russian: Илья Александрович Авербах) (July 28, 1934, Leningrad – January 11, 1986, Moscow) was a Soviet film director. His 1972 film, ''Monologue'', was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Fes ...

, producer = G. Didenko , writer = , starring = , music =

Oleg Karavaychuk Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaichuk (russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Каравайчу́к; 28 December 1927 – 13 June 2016) was a Soviet and Russian composer, author of music for many films and theater performances. Biography Karavayc ...

, cinematography = Dmitry Meskhiev Sr. , editing = R. Schwartz , released = 1971 , studio=

Lenfilm Lenfilm (russian: link=no, Ленфильм) is a Russian production company with its own film studio located in Saint Petersburg (the city was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991, thus the name). It is a corporation with its stakes shared betwee ...

, runtime = 84 min. , country =

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

, language = Russian , budget = Drama from Ancient Life (russian: Драма из старинной жизни, Drama iz starinnoy zhizni) is a 1971 Soviet drama film directed by

. Based on the story of Nikolai Leskov '' The Dumbass Artist''.

Plot

The story of the lovers of one another, the count's hairdresser Arkady and the serf actress Lyuba unfolds in an environment that fancifully combines dense wildness with an external gloss, barbarism - with the appearance of enlightenment. Young people manage to escape, but their happiness is not destined to come true.Драма из старинной жизни
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Cast

Yelena Solovey Elena Solovey (born 24 February 1947) is a Soviet-Russian film actress. She has appeared in more than 60 films since 1966. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress in the film '' Faktas'' at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmogra ...

as Lyuba * Anatoly Yegorov as Arkady * Yevgeny Perov as Count Kamensky * Sofya Pavlova as Drosida * Aleksandr Khlopotov as Kamensky Jr. *

Lyudmila Arinina Lyudmila Mikhailovna Arinina (russian: Людми́ла Миха́йловна Ари́нина; born November 8, 1926, Sinodskoye Village, Saratov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian actress. She was named an Honored Artist of the RS ...

as mammy *

Rasmi Djabrailov Rasmi Khalidovich Djabrailov (russian: Расми Халидович Джабраилов; 8 December 1932 — 22 January 2022) was a Russian actor and stage director.

as Khraposhka *

Felix Antipov Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, S ...

as a priest * Aleksandr Demyanenko as Yeroshka *

Viktor Ilichyov Viktor Grigorievich Ilichyov (russian: Виктор Григорьевич Ильичёв; 5 February 1946 — 8 October 2010) was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1967 to 2006. He lived in the United States of America ...

as Afanaska

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=0123047 1971 films 1970s Russian-language films Soviet drama films Films based on Russian novels Films directed by Ilya Averbakh Lenfilm films 1971 drama films Films based on works by Nikolai Leskov