At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out.
Fosco Giachetti
as Andrei Taganov
Alida Valli
as Kira Argounova
Rossano Brazzi
as Leo Kovalenski
Emilio Cigoli
as Pavel Sjerov
Giovanni Grasso
as Stephan Tishenko
Annibale Betrone
as Vassili Dunaev
Elvira Betrone
as Maria Petrovna Dunaev
Sennuccio Benelli
as Saska
Cesarina Gheraldi
as La Compagna Sonja
Silvia Manto
as Mariska
