Overview
In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Ukraine
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Music
Music by Henryk Wars
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Boris Volchek
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Mikhail RommWriter
- Yevgeni GabrilovichWriter
- Original title
- Мечта
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 13, 1943
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
Yelena KuzminaAnna
Faina RanevskayaMadame Rosa Skorokhodova
Vladimir SolovyovVasil, Anna's brother- Valentin ShcheglovTomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)
- Arkadi KislyakovLazar Skorokhod
Ada VojtsikVanda
Mikhail AstangovStanislav Komorovsky
Mikhail BoldumanZygmunt Dombek
Rostislav PlyattYanek, cabdriver- Nikolai OrlovOld weaver
Viktor Lazarev
Yelena AnufriyevaAnna's mother- Viktor BubnovVasil's friend (uncredited)
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