The Yellow Ticket
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Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anya's new baby, on threat of eviction. While nursing the daughter's baby, Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughter's husband, and a scandal erupts, ruining Maria in her husband's eyes. When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home, the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute, further degrading her. She approaches home, unsure of the reception that awaits her.
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Cast
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Anna Sten
Maria, young farmer's wife
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Ivan Koval-Samborskiy
Jacob
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Sofya Yakovleva
Katerina
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Mikhail Narokov
Belsky
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Anel Sudakevich
Anya, Belsky's daughter
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Vladimir Fogel
Anya's husband
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Pyotr Baksheyev
Doorman
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Nikolai Batalov
Maria's countryman
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Mother
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Sofya Levitina
Rich lady
Known for
Aelita: Queen of Mars
Vera Maretskaya
Prostitute
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Konstantin Gradopolov
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Fyodor Otsep Director · Louis Forestier Cinematographer Sergei Kozlovsky Production designer
First release February 7, 1928 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Земля в плену
Production
Mezhrabpom-Rus
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Земля в плену
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · February 7, 1928
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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