O you—Russian fate, a woman’s lot!
On the powerless position of peasant women in pre-revolutionary Russia. Marisha, a village girl, is in love with the coachman Yakov. Marisha’s father, a wealthy peasant, refuses to consent to his daughter’s marriage. The lovers are forced to meet in secret. Soon Marisha gives birth to a child, and the coachman abandons his beloved. Harassed by the villagers, Marisha throws herself and her son into the river. Lost film. The title is taken from the first stanza of Russian poet's Nikolay Nekrasov's poem, titled "The village harvest is in full swing..."
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Cast
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Nikolay Gasilov
Yegor, a well-off peasant
Ursula Krug
Anna (Yegor's wife)
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Yelena Chaika
Marisha (Yegor's daughter)
Veronika Buzhinskaya
Marya, Vasiliy's wife
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Vasili Kozhura
Yakov, the landowner’s coachman
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F. Mishin
Father Methodius, village priest
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Lazar Antsi-Polovskiy
Panteleimon, Yegor’s drinking companion
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D. Bronevitskiy
Landowner
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Maria Bagildz
Landowner
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A. Rudin
A Young Gypsy