Land in Captivity (The Yellow Ticket) (Yellow Pass)
1928 · Movie · 80 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
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.
Direction Fyodor Otsep
Cast Anna Sten · Ivan Koval-Samborsky · Mikhail Narokov · Vladimir Fogel · Anel Sudakevich · Sofya Yakovleva · Pyotr Baksheyev · Nikolai Batalov · Ivan Chuvelyov · Konstantin Gradopolov · Sofya Levitina · Vera Maretskaya · Porfiri Podobed
Screenplay Fyodor Otsep
Cinematography Louis Forestier
Original title Zemlya v plenu
Also known as Yellow Pass
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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