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The Yellow Ticket

192880 minSoviet Union
Drama

Synopsis

A soldier returns to a village where his family cannot survive on the poor land available to them. His wife takes work as a wet nurse in a wealthy city household, believing her wages will protect those left behind. Employers exploit her inability to read, separating her from news of home and leaving her vulnerable to abuse, dismissal and police suspicion.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
69:37
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · «Межрабпомфильм» · Public domain

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Cast

DirectorsFyodor Otsep

Historical context

Otsep connects rural debt with the exploitation of domestic labor in the city. Letters that Maria cannot read become instruments of control, making access to information as important to her predicament as money.

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