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
Anna
Faina Ranevskaya
Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
Vladimir Solovyov
Vasil, Anna's brother
Vladimir Shcheglov
Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)
Arkadi Kislyakov
Lazar Skorokhod
Ada Vojtsik
Vanda