O you—Russian fate, a woman’s lot! (1922)
On the powerless position of peasant women in pre-revolutionary Russia. Marisha, a village girl, is in love with the coachman Yakov. Marisha’s father, a wealthy peasant, refuses to consent to his daughter’s marriage. The lovers are forced to meet in secret. Soon Marisha gives birth to a child, and the coachman abandons his beloved. Harassed by the villagers, Marisha throws herself and her son into the river. Lost film. The title is taken from the first stanza of Russian poet's Nikolay Nekrasov's poem, titled "The village harvest is in full swing..."
- Released
- 1922-09-01
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Boris Svetlov
Cast
- Nikolay Gasilov as Yegor, a well-off peasant
- Ursula Krug as Anna (Yegor's wife)
- Yelena Chaika as Marisha (Yegor's daughter)
- Veronika Buzhinskaya as Marya, Vasiliy's wife
- Vasili Kozhura as Yakov, the landowner’s coachman
- F. Mishin as Father Methodius, village priest
- Lazar Antsi-Polovskiy as Panteleimon, Yegor’s drinking companion
- D. Bronevitskiy as Landowner
- Maria Bagildz as Landowner
- A. Rudin as A Young Gypsy
- Ye. Klimenko as Old gypsy woman
- Georgiy Aleksandrov as Vasiliy, Yegor's son