Behind the Footlights
Russian Empire, the middle of the XIX century. Aged, beggar dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin, in search of work, wanders through the cities with his young daughter Liza. They dream that Lisa someday will succeed on stage and become a famous actress.
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Top Cast
Vasili Merkuryev
Lev Gurych Sinichkin
Liliya Yudina
Liza Sinichkina
Tatyana Karpova
Raisa Surmilova
Nikolai Afanasyev
Serge Vetrinsky
Mikhail Yanshin
Fyodor Borzikov
Yuri Lyubimov
Graf Zefirov
Sergei Blinnikov
Pyotr Pustoslavtsev
Stanislav Chekan
Stepan
Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
Prompter
Grigori Abrikosov
Kozachinsky
Pyotr Repnin
Nalimov
Yuriy Yakovlev
Chakhotkin
Vladimir Troshin
Timchenko
Anna Shilova
Yelena Savitskaya
Crew
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