The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket

1928 · 80 min · ★ 5.6 · Drama

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.

Directed by Fyodor Otsep · Written by Fyodor Otsep

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Anna Sten Maria, young farmer's wife
Ivan Koval-Samborskiy Jacob
Sofya Yakovleva Katerina
Mikhail Narokov Belsky
Anel Sudakevich Anya, Belsky's daughter
Vladimir Fogel Anya's husband
Pyotr Baksheyev Doorman
Nikolai Batalov Maria's countryman
Sofya Levitina Rich lady
Vera Maretskaya Prostitute
Konstantin Gradopolov
Porfiri Podobed

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