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RADIO PLAY: The Snowstorm (Метель) Author: Alexander Pushkin (1799 - 1837) Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk 1959 Adaptation: Josef Martin Bauer Director: Walter Ohm Music: Wilhelm Kerstin Synopsis: On a gloomy winter night in 1812, the Russian steppe is hit by a violent snowstorm. In the dim candlelight of a small church, the young Marya Gavrilovna waits for her lover, the penniless ensign Vladimir Nikolaevich, to marry in secret. But Vladimir gets lost in the snowstorm and does not reach the church. In her desperation, Marya becomes involved in a fatal mistake that overshadows her life for years. Meanwhile, war and grief ravage the country. It is only after a long time that hope returns to Marya's life, when she meets Captain Burmin, a hussar. A deep affection develops between them, but Burmin is plagued by a dark secret that threatens to destroy his feelings for Marja. The moving story addresses fate, love and the unpredictability of life, embedded in the snow-covered, melancholy landscape of Russia. Cast: Friedrich Domin: Gawrilo Gawrilowitsch Rezmanow, landowner Eva Vaitl: Praskowja Petrowna, his wife Elfriede Kuzmany: Marja Gawrilowna, their daughter Peter Arens: Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Peter Lühr: Burmin, captain of the hussars Ernst Ginsberg: Drawin, cornet a. D. Ernst Schlott: Schmidt, surveyor Mila Kopp: Anuschka, Marja's maid Fred Kallmann: Terjoschka, coachman Fritz Rasp: Priest Walter Holten: Doctor Walter Hillbring: A farmer Hans Joachim Quitschorra: Ivan, the farmer's son Hanns Stein: Starost Ellinor Jensen: Jekaterina Ingeborg Hoffmann: Agafja Arno Schrade: Postmaster Note: One year earlier, in 1958, Ludwig Cremer directed the radio play for WDR.