the genres:

Storyline:

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.

Cast:

Olga Khorkova

as Domna Panteleevna

Svetlana Pelikhovskaya

as Aleksandra Negina

Nikolai Gritsenko

as prince Irakli Saratonovich Dulebov

Aleksandr Belyavskiy

as Ivan Semenovich Bakin

Leonid Gubanov

as Ivan Semenovich Velikatov

Vladimir Bogin

as Pyotr Yegorovich Meluzov

Nonna Terentyeva

as Nina Vasilievna Smelskaya

Yevgeni Lebedev

as Martyn Prokofievich Narokov

Yuriy Sarantsev

as Gavrilo Petrovich Migayev

Grigori Abrikosov

as Erast Gromilov

Mikhail Bocharov

as

Pyotr Savin

as

Ariadna Shengelaia

as

Rudolf Pankov

as Vasya

Viktoriya Chernakova

as girl

P. Ermakov

as

Ivan Mochalov

as

Vladimir Kabatchenko

as