This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Grigore Grigoriu
as Loiko Zobar
Светлана Тома
as Rada
Nelli Volshaninova
as Rusalina, Zobar's sister
Борислав Брондуков
as Bucha
Sergiu Finiti
as Bubulia
Ion Sandri Scurea
as Antol Siladi
Pavel Andreichenko
as Talimon
Lyalya Chyornaya
as Old Gipsy Woman
Всеволод Гаврилов
as Danilo
Михаил Шишков
as Nur
Nikolai Volshaninov
as Aralambi
Vasily Simchich
as Balint
