The Queen of Spades
Hermann is an officer of the engineers in the Imperial Russian Army. He constantly watches the other officers gamble, but never plays himself. One night, Tomsky tells a story about his grandmother, an elderly countess. Many years ago, in France, she lost a fortune at cards, and then won it back with the secret of the three winning cards, which she learned from the notorious Count of St. Germain. Hermann becomes obsessed with obtaining the secret.
Top Billed Cast
Viktor Proskurin
Germann
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Chekalinsky
Featured Crew
Igor Maslennikov
Director
Aleksandr Shlepyanov
Writer
Asya Zvereva
Sound
Alexander Pushkin
Short Story
Dmitri Bortnyansky
Original Music Composer
Yuri Veksler
Director of Photography
Isaak Kaplan
Production Design