The Anna Cross (1954)

The Anna Cross (1954)

Release Date: 1954, May 13
Directors: Isidor Annensky
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Gorky Film Studios
Cast: Aleksei Gribov, Vladimir Vladislavskiy, Vladimir Uralskiy, Alla Larionova, Tatyana Pankova, Mikhail Shishkov, Irina Murzayeva, Galina Frolova, Mikhail Zharov, Aleksandr Metyolkin, Viktor Bubnov, Vladimir Shishkin

Overview:

Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.