Anna on the neck (film)

“After the wedding, there was not even a light snack ...” Anton Chekhov writes in the story, the underlying picture of the script, about the 18-year-old girl Anna, who, wanting to help her poor family, was forced to agree to marry 52-year-old official Modest Alekseevich. After the death of her mother, her father, a penmanship and drawing teacher at the gymnasium, Petr Leontiich began to drink; Petit and Andryusha, younger high-school brothers, did not even have boots. “But familiar ladies began to fuss and began to search for Anya a good man. Soon this very Modest Alekseich was found, not young and not beautiful, but with money. ”

“When Kosorotov received the Second Degree Order of St. Anne and came to give thanks (he loved the spouse to remember Anna in one case), His Excellency put it like this:“ So, you now have three Annas: one in his buttonhole, two around his neck. ” At that time, his wife had just returned to Kosorotov, a quarrelsome and frivolous person, whose name was Anna. I hope that when I get Anna of the second degree, his excellency will not have a reason to tell me the same thing ... ”

Anya constantly thought that although she married a rich man, “she still did not have money, and when her father and brothers saw her off today, she saw from their faces that they did not have a penny.” Spouses began to live in a government-owned apartment. Anya played the piano all day long, or cried from boredom, or read novels and fashion magazines. At dinner, Modest Alekseyich talked about politics, about appointments and rewards, that family life is not pleasure, but duty. In society, Modest Alekseich forced Anu to obsequiously bow to people with high ranks. He was greedy when Anya asked him to buy something for her. When Anya came to visit her father and brothers, she felt that they were embarrassed and did not know how to behave. Peter Leontyitch, a weak and kind father, played the old harmonium on holidays and continued to drink. And the brothers, “Petya and Andryusha, thin, pale boys with big eyes, took the carafe from him and said bewildered:“ Don't, daddy ... Enough, daddy ... ””

With the money, Anya's family after her marriage became even worse. Only once Peter Leontyich asked her husband for 50 rubles. Modest Alekseich gave money, but threatened that the last time, as Peter Leontiich drinks, and this is shameful. And the brothers who came to visit Anya also had to listen to the instructions of Anya's husband: “Everyone should have their duties!” Modest Alekseich did not give money, but he gave Ana jewels, saying that it’s good to have a rainy day. And he often checked if all things were intact.

Long before Christmas, Modest Alekseich began to prepare Anya for the traditional winter ball and even gave her 100 rubles for a dress. The time has come for the ball. Anya shone, fascinated even the most indifferent men. Anuya noticed His Excellency himself and invited her to lead a charity bazaar. Things from Anya's hands were selling like hot cakes. “Artynov, the rich man, came up. Without taking his eyes off Ani, he drank a glass of champagne and paid a hundred rubles, then drank tea and gave another hundred. ” Anya "understood that she was created exclusively for this noisy, brilliant, laughing life with music, dancing, fans." She was beginning to be ashamed of her father: “She was already ashamed that she had such a poor, such ordinary father.”

The next morning, after her triumph, Artynov came to visit Anna, and then His Excellency. When her husband Modest Alekseich came, “he also stood in front of her now with the same servile-respectful expression she used to see in his presence in the presence of the strong and noble. And with delight, already confident that she would not have anything for it, she said, clearly pronouncing every word: “Go away, you fool!”

After that, Ani had no free day since she took part in a picnic, then in a walk, then in a performance. She returned home every day in the morning. A lot of money was needed, but she only sent a bill or a note to her husband: “To this supporter, give out 200 rubles.” At Easter, Modest Alekseyich did receive Anna of the second degree. His Excellency said to this: "So, you now have three Anne: one in his buttonhole, two around his neck." Modest Alekseich answered: “Now it remains to expect the birth of little Vladimir. I dare to ask Your Excellency to be a successor. " He hinted at Vladimir IV degree and already imagined how he would tell about his pun everywhere.

And Anya rode in threes, went with Artynov to hunt and less often visited her father and brothers. Peter Leontiich washed down more strongly than before, there was no money, and the harmonium was already sold for a long time for debt. And when, during walks, they met Anya on a troika with Artynov, “Peter Leontich removed the top hat and was about to shout something, and Petya and Andrew took it under their arms and said imploringly:“ Don't, daddy ... It will be, daddy ... ”

• Alla Larionova - Anna Soboleva
• Alexander Sashin-Nikolsky - Petr Leontyevich Sobolev, Anna's father
• Vladimir Vladislavsky - Modest Alekseevich
• Mikhail Zharov - Artynov
• Alexander Vertinsky - Prince
• Natalia Belevtseva - Princess
• Irina Murzaeva - Mavra Grigoryevna
• Vladimir Shishkin - Desdemonov
• Gennady Zaichkin - Shchegolev
• Galina Frolova - the lady in the kiosk
• Alexey Gribov - Ivan Ivanovich
• Alexander Rumnev - manager at the ball
• Tatyana Pankova - Agrafena Semenovna, Dressmaker
• George Gumilevsky - barman in the theater
• Mikhail Shishkov - Gypsy
• Vladimir Soshalsky - an officer with a lady in the theater (not in the credits)
• Vera Altai - lady in the carriage (not in the credits)
• Claudia Khabarova - lady in the carriage (not in the credits)
• Muse Krepkogorskaya - parishioner and a girl at the ball (not in the credits)
• Georgy Svetlani - official (not in credits)
• Yan Yanakiev - hussar (not in credits)
• Alexander Zhukov - footman (not in credits)
• Ekaterina Mazurova - woman in church (not in credits)
• Elena Volskaya - lady (not in credits)
• Manefa Sobolevskaya - lady (not in credits)
• Peter Repnin - guest at the prince's ball (not in the credits)
• Alexandra Denisova - lady
• Klavdiya Kozlёnkova - a young lady in the Artynov carriage (not in the credits)
• Valentina Ushakova - young lady (not in credits)
• Lev Potyomkin - Mr. at the ball
• Valentina Belyaeva - episode (not in credits)
• Konstantin Bartashevich - Mr. at the ball (not in the credits)

• Screenwriter and director - Isidore Annensky
• Operator - George Reysgof
• Artist - Alexander Dikhtyar
• Composer - Lev Schwartz
• Sound producer - Dmitry Flyangolts
• Editor - R. O. Shor
• Special Effects A. Krylov and V. Osminkina
• Director - Vladimir Rogovoy

• "Anna on the neck" on the site "Encyclopedia of the national cinema"

• Isidore Annensky. The book "In the theater and cinema," the chapter "Anna on the neck . "