"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."
Yelena Kuzmina
as Anna
Faina Ranevskaya
as Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
Vladimir Solovyov
as Vasil, Anna's brother
Valentin Shcheglov
as Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)
Arkadi Kislyakov
as Lazar Skorokhod
Ada Vojtsik
as Vanda
Mikhail Astangov
as Stanislav Komorovsky
Mikhail Bolduman
as Zygmunt Dombek
Rostislav Plyatt
as Yanek, cabdriver
Nikolai Orlov
as Old weaver
Viktor Lazarev
as
Yelena Anufriyeva
as Anna's mother
Viktor Bubnov
as Vasil's friend (uncredited)
Mikhail Romm
Director
Yeva Ladyzhenskaya
Editor
Vladimir Kaplunovskiy
Production Design
Writer
Yevgeni Gabrilovich
Boris Volchek
Director of Photography
Isidor Simkov
Assistant Director
Evgeny Aron
Era Savelyeva
Additional Director of Photography
Konstantin Efimov
Costume Design
Vyacheslav Leshchyov
Sound Director
Yevgeni Kashkevich
M. Albetkov
Assistant Camera
I. Davydov
Tatyana Berezantseva
First Assistant Director
G. Soluyanov
Second Assistant Director
S. Raevskiy
Makeup & Hair
Ye. Shakon
Makeup Artist
A. Arakelyan
Administration
P. Obolenskiy
Assistant Production Manager
Nikolay Privezentsev
Executive Producer
Henry Vars
Original Music Composer