Drama from Ancient Life

Drama from Ancient Life
Movie poster
Russian: Драма из старинной жизни
Directed by	Ilya Averbakh
Written by	Ilya Averbakh Vladimir Belyaev Nikolai Leskov
Produced by	G. Didenko
Starring	Yelena Solovey Anatoly Yegorov Yevgeny Perov
Cinematography	Dmitry Meskhiev Sr.
Edited by	R. Schwartz
Music by	Oleg Karavaychuk
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	1971
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] Based on the story of Nikolai Leskov The Hair Dresser.^[4]

Plot

The story of the lovers of one another, 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

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