The Yellow Ticket
Земля в плену
Release: 1928-02-07
·Runtime: 80m
·★ 5.2
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mezhrabpom-Rus
Cast
Konstantin Gradopolov
Vladimir Tsoppi
as (uncredited)
Anna Sten
as Maria, young farmer's wife
Sofya Yakovleva
as Katerina
Mikhail Narokov
as Belsky
Vera Maretskaya
as Prostitute
Ivan Chuvelyov
Anel Sudakevich
as Anya, Belsky's daughter
Vladimir Fogel
as Anya's husband
Pyotr Baksheyev
as Doorman
Sofya Levitina
as Rich lady
Mikhail Zharov
as Visitor in the brothel
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
as Jacob
Nikolai Batalov
as Maria's countryman
Porfiri Podobed
Alexandr Gromov
as Countryman (uncredited)
