Behind the Monastery Wall

Behind the Monastery Wall

1928 ru 58 minutes

Rating: 0

Plot

The old nunnery owns the best lands. Nuns rent out the land to local rich men, and exploiting peasants they have a wealthy life. The peasants live in misery. Especially, the family of the peasant named Levin. He is forced to give away his last horse, his son Andrii is imprisoned, his daughter Nastia becomes a maid of a rich landlord. Trying to prevent the master’s harassment, Nastia escapes and gets to the nunnery. She can see the other life of the nuns who manufacture false relics, drink alcohol and kill children. Nastia ends up in the basement for resisting one of the “spiritual pastors.” Meanwhile, her brother Andrii escapes from prison. He stirs up a rebellion and saves his sister. The film is lost.

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Cast

Nina Li

Nina Li

Nastya Levina

Matvei Lyarov

Matvei Lyarov

Nedzelnitskiy

Mykola Kuchynskyi

Mykola Kuchynskyi

Priest

A. Ostashevsky

A. Ostashevsky

Bishop Straton

Morshchikova

Morshchikova

Mother hegumeness

L. Nordt-Lundina

L. Nordt-Lundina

Manefa

Anastasia Suvorina

Anastasia Suvorina

Old nun

Arseni Kuts

Arseni Kuts

Andrey Levin, Nastya's brother

Borys Bezhin

Borys Bezhin

Monk

K. Rudakov

K. Rudakov

Handicap

A. Belov

A. Belov

Fat monk

Anna Obukhovich

Anna Obukhovich

Klanya

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