

At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out.

Fosco Giachetti
Andrei Taganov

Alida Valli
Kira Argounova

Rossano Brazzi
Leo Kovalenski

Emilio Cigoli
Pavel Sjerov

Giovanni Grasso
Stephan Tishenko

Annibale Betrone
Vassili Dunaev
Elvira Betrone
Maria Petrovna Dunaev
Sennuccio Benelli
Saska

Cesarina Gheraldi
La Compagna Sonja
Silvia Manto
Mariska
Goffredo Alessandrini
Corrado Alvaro, Orio Vergani, Anton Giulio Majano
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