Gobsek the richest and most stragity usurer of Paris. The Countess by Anastasi lays will Gobseck family diamond my husband, for the sake of debt her beloved Maxim. This rash act she reveals to her husband her love affair.
Acting
Tatosov's Gobseck—human glacier, terrifying in stillness.
Production
Stifling period interiors that breathe debt and desperation.
Director
Aleksandr Orlov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soviet adaptation of Balzac's 1830 story, rare Western canon film during perestroika cultural thaw.