Drama from Ancient Life
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| Russian: Драма из старинной жизни | |
| Directed by | Ilya Averbakh |
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| Produced by | G. Didenko |
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| Cinematography | Dmitry Meskhiev Sr. |
| Edited by | R. Schwartz |
| Music by | Oleg Karavaychuk |
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Running time | 84 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Drama from Ancient Life (Russian: Драма из старинной жизни, romanized: Drama iz starinnoy zhizni) is a 1971 Soviet historical drama film directed by Ilya Averbakh.[1][2][3] It is based on the story by Nikolai Leskov The Hair Dresser.[4]
Plot
The story of the two lovers, 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.[5]
Cast
- Yelena Solovey as Lyuba
- Anatoly Yegorov as Arkady
- Yevgeny Perov as Count Kamensky
- Sofya Pavlova as Drosida
- Aleksandr Khlopotov as Kamensky Jr.
- Lyudmila Arinina as mammy
- Rasmi Djabrailov as Khraposhka
- Felix Antipov as a priest
- Aleksandr Demyanenko as Yeroshka
- Viktor Ilichyov as Afanaska