Masquerade

Release Date: 1941-09-16

Overview: 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.

Rating: 5.6 / 10

Cast

Nikolai Mordvinov

as Arbenin

Tamara Makarova

as Nina

Mikhail Sadovsky

as Knyaz Zvezdich

Sofiya Magarill

as Baroness Shtral

Antonin Pankryshev

as