The Suicide (1981)

by Nikolai Erdman

Translated by Peter Tegel

Main house

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Production team

Director – Gordon Vallins

Cast

Masha – Wendy Anderson
Raissa Filipovna – Helen Ashbourne
Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin – Neil Bevan
A boy – Jonathan Bradshaw
Viktor Viktorovich – Franc Chamberlain
Father Elpidi – Colin Colgan
Choirboy/Boy – Neil Davies
Egor Timovyeyevich – Jon Griffin
Undertaker/Oleg Leonidovich/Down-and-out/Waiter – Ernie Guthrie
Down-and-out/Undertaker/Deacon/Waiter – Bill Hamilton
Cleopatra Maximovna – Miriam Hanks
Semyon Semyonovich Podsekalnikov – Bob Harper
Nikifor Arsenyevich Pugachov – George Howell
Gypsy musician – Joy Mills
Gypsy musician – Peter Mills
Margarita Ivanovna Peryesvetova – Sheila Millward
Old Volodkina/Gossip/Woman at banquet – Joy Olver
Boy/Choirboy – David Pinner
Woman at banquet – Margaret Rees
Serafima Ilinichna – Betty Sanders
Aristarch Dominikovich Golashchapov – Emmanuel Toutoungi
Old peasant woman/Gossip – Anne Wood

Photographs

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Notes

World amateur premiere.

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