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The Bride Without a Dowry
The Bride Without a Dowry
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THE BRIDE WITHOUT A DOWRY

Bespridannitsa

Directed by Yakov Protazanov, Aleksandr Rou
Soviet Union, 1937
Drama, Romance

Synopsis

Ogudolova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother’s wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry. She falls in love with a dashing scoundrel who betrays her in about sixty minutes, leaving the waters of the Volga as her solution.

Synopsis

Ogudolova, unlike her sisters, refuses to obey her mother’s wish that she marry a wealthy old man in order to collect a dowry. She falls in love with a dashing scoundrel who betrays her in about sixty minutes, leaving the waters of the Volga as her solution.