This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, now part of Moldova, then belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Svetlana Toma
as Rada

Grigore Grigoriu
as Zobar

Ion Sandri Scurea
as Siladi

Pavel Andreichenko
as Talimon

Sergiu Finiti
as Bubulia

Lyalya Chyornaya
as old gipsy woman

Boryslav Brondukov
as Bucha

Nelli Volshaninova
as Rusalina

Vsevolod Gavrilov
as Danilo

Mikhail Shishkov
as Nur