Negina, a popular but poor actress, receives lessons from her fiancé Meluzov. Prince Dulebov, intending to take advantage of the girl's dire circumstances, suggests sponsorship, gets refused and becomes spiteful. Despite the latter's intrigues, Negina's benefice performance is triumphant and she receives a large sum of money, part of which Dulebov himself has to provide to keep his face. Still, the entrepreneur refuses to prolong her contract. One after another ecstatic admires come to her expressing their affection, among them Narokov, Naluzov and Velikatov. She leaves honest but dull Meluzov and goes away with rich Velikatov, motivated not by greed but by the desire to work on stage, the only thing she is really in love with.
Directed by Isidor Annensky
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Cast
Olga Khorkova
Domna Panteleevna
Svetlana Pelikhovskaya
Aleksandra Negina
Nikolai Gritsenko
prince Irakli Saratonovich Dulebov
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
Ivan Semenovich Bakin
Leonid Gubanov
Ivan Semenovich Velikatov
Vladimir Bogin
Pyotr Yegorovich Meluzov
Nonna Terentyeva
Nina Vasilievna Smelskaya
Yevgeni Lebedev
Martyn Prokofievich Narokov
Yuriy Sarantsev
Gavrilo Petrovich Migayev
Grigori Abrikosov
Erast Gromilov
Mikhail Bocharov
Pyotr Savin
Ariadna Shengelaia
Rudolf Pankov
Vasya
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