''The Yellow Ticket'' or ''Earth in Captivity'' (russian: Земля в плену, Zemlya v plenu) is a 1928 Soviet silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Fyodor Otsep Fedor Ozep or Fyodor Otsep (russian: Фёдор Алекса́ндрович О́цеп, ''Fyodor Aleksandrovich Otsep''; February 9, 1895 – June 20, 1949) was a Russian-American film director and screenwriter, born in Moscow. An important earl ...

and starring

Anna Sten Anna Sten ( ua, А́нна Стен; born Anna Petrivna Fesak, December 3, 1908November 12, 1993) was a Ukrainian-born American actress. She began her career in stage plays and films in the Soviet Union before traveling to Germany, where she st ...

Ivan Koval-Samborsky Ivan Koval-Samborsky ( Ukrainian: Іван Коваль-Самборський; 16 September 1893 – 10 January 1962) was a Ukrainian stage and film actor. After establishing himself in the Soviet film industry in the 1920s, he briefly went to wor ...

and Mikhail Narokov.Phillips & Vincendeau p.81

Cast

as Maria, young farmer's wife *

as Jacob * Mikhail Narokov as Belskiy *

Vladimir Fogel Vladimir Pavlovich Fogel (russian: Влади́мир Па́влович Фо́гель; 19029 June 1929) was a Russian silent film actor. Biography Vladimir Fogel was born in Moscow. His family name comes from his German father, an immigrant who ...

as Baron's son-in-law *

Anel Sudakevich Anel Sudakevich (born Anna Alekseyevna Sudakevich; Russian: Анель Судакевич; December 27, 1906 – September 22, 2002) was a Soviet silent film actress. Anna was born in a Belarusians, Belarusian-Polish people, Polish family. She wa ...

as Anya – Baron's married daughter * Sofya Yakovleva as Katarina * Pyotr Baksheyev as Doorman, butler *

Nikolai Batalov Nikolai Petrovich Batalov (russian: Николай Петрович Баталов; 6 December 1899 in Moscow – 10 November 1937 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He performed in a number of notable films between 1924 and ...

as Maria's fellow villager *

Ivan Chuvelyov Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

Konstantin Gradopolov The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus'' (Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. ...

Sofya Levitina Sofya Levitina (russian: link=no, София Левитина) was a Soviet actress. Selected filmography * 1924 — ''Aelita'' * 1934 — ''Boule de Suif Boule may refer to: ;Ball games * Boules, a collective term for games involving player ...

Vera Maretskaya Vera Petrovna Maretskaya (Russian: Вера Петровна Марецкая) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1976). Early years Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was born ...

as Prostitute *

Porfiri Podobed Porfiri Artemyevich Podobed (russian: Порфирий Артемьевич Подобед; — 9 November 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and manager at the Moscow Art Theatre.Cinema: Encyclopedic Dictionary // ed. Sergei Yutkevich. — ...

References

Bibliography

* Phillips, Alastair & Vincendeau, Ginette. ''Journeys of Desire: European Actors in Hollywood''. British Film Institute, 2006.

External links

* Films directed by Fedor Ozep 1928 films Soviet silent feature films 1920s Russian-language films Soviet black-and-white films Soviet drama films 1928 drama films Silent drama films {{1920s-USSR-film-stub