Drama from Ancient Life

Drama from Ancient Life (Драма из старинной жизни) is a 1971 Soviet historical drama film directed by Ilya Averbakh. Based on the story of Nikolai Leskov The Hair Dresser.

Plot
The story of the lovers of one another, the count's hairdresser Arkady and the serf actress Lyuba unfolds in an environment that fancifully combines dense wildness with an external gloss, barbarism - with the appearance of enlightenment. Young people manage to escape, but their happiness is not destined to come true.

Cast

 * Yelena Solovey as Lyuba
 * Anatoly Yegorov as Arkady
 * Yevgeny Perov as Count Kamensky
 * Sofya Pavlova as Drosida
 * Aleksandr Khlopotov as Kamensky Jr.
 * Lyudmila Arinina as mammy
 * Rasmi Djabrailov	as Khraposhka
 * Felix Antipov as a priest
 * Aleksandr Demyanenko as Yeroshka
 * Viktor Ilichyov as Afanaska