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
Valentin Shcheglov
Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)
Arkadi Kislyakov
Lazar Skorokhod
Ada Vojtsik
Vanda
Mikhail Astangov
Stanislav Komorovsky
Mikhail Bolduman
Zygmunt Dombek
Rostislav Plyatt
Yanek, cabdriver
Nikolai Orlov
Old weaver
Viktor Lazarev
Yelena Anufriyeva
Anna's mother
Sky
My Neighbor Adolf
The Young One
Herself
Cardboard Boxer
Electricity
Suburbia
What Maisie Knew
Fast Girls
Adopt a Highway
Almost Friends
Ayka
Intruders
Bastard Out of Carolina
All Day and a Night
My Joy
Come Sunday
Greenberg
Poor Cow
Ashes in the Snow