In search for a better life, Anna leaves her Ukrainian village for a big city. Three years later, she finds herself working two jobs and spending most of her days in a rooming house inhabited by broken people.
Mikhail RommDirector
Anna
Madame Rosa Skorokhodova
Vasil, Anna's brother
Tomash, worker (as Viktor Shcheglov)
Lazar Skorokhod
Vanda
Stanislav Komorovsky
Zygmunt Dombek
Yanek, cabdriver
Old weaver
Anna's mother