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The Queen of Spades

56 %|Apr 19, 1916|Horror, Drama, Fantasy

While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.

Featured Crew

Yakov Protazanov
Director
Joseph N. Ermolieff
Production Manager
Yakov Protazanov
Writer
Fyodor Otsep
Writer
Georg Asagaroff
Assistant Director
Yevgeni Slavinsky
Director of Photography
Alexander Pushkin
Story
Vladimir Ballyuzek
Production Design

Cast

actor
Vera Orlova
Lizaveta
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Nikolai Panov
Count of Saint-Germain
actor
Tatiana Duvan
The countess (young)