Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.
Николай Мордвинов
as Arbenin
Тамара Макарова
as Nina
Mikhail Sadovsky
as Knyaz Zvezdich
Софья Магарилл
as Baroness Shtral
Antonin Pankryshev
as
Любовь Соколова
as
Сергей Герасимов
as
