Overview
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..."
Director and 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 (Vsiliy's wife)
- Василий Кожура as Yakov, the landowner’s coachman
- Vasili Kozhura as Yakov, the landowner’s coachman
- F. Mishin as Father Methodius, village priest
- Лазарь Анци-Половский as Panteleimon (Yegor’s drinking companion)
- Lazar Antsi-Polovskiy as Panteleimon, Yegor’s drinking companion
- D. Bronevitskiy Cast
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