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The Yellow Ticket (1928)

The Yellow Ticket (1928)

Drama
Release Date: 1928, February 7
Directors: Fyodor Otsep
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mezhrabpom-Rus
Cast: Anel Sudakevich, Mikhail Zharov, Vera Maretskaya, Vladimir Tsoppi, Ivan Koval-Samborskiy, Anna Sten, Daniil Vvedenskiy, Alexandr Gromov, Sofya Levitina, Nikolai Batalov, Mikhail Narokov, Varvara Alyokhina

Overview:

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.