A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya)

A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya) Original Poster Country USSR Directed by Aleksandr Borisov Release Date 1960 Language Russian Studio Lenfilm Main Cast Character Actor The Gentle Woman Iya Savvina The Pawnbroker Andrei Popov Lukerya Vera Kuznetsova Yefimovich Panteleymon Krymov

A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya) is a Soviet 1960 screen adaptation of the same name story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, depicting the tragic fate of a young woman who has to get married an aged pawnbroker.

The following weapons were used in the film A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya):

Merwin Hulbert Pocket Revolver

A Merwin Hulbert pocket revolver is seen in hands of the pawnbroker (Andrei Popov) and his wife (Iya Savvina). The revolver appears to be same prop that was used in another Lenfilm production, Priklucheniya Sherlocka Holmsa i doktora Vatsona (1980).

Merwin Hulbert & Co. Pocket Army, 3rd Model - .44/40 WCF

The pawnbroker draws the revolver while planning to shoot the supposed lover of his wife.

The revolver on the table.

Another view of the revolver.

Pawnbroker's wife takes the revolver...

...approaches to her sleeping husband with the revolver in hand...

...and puts the gun to his head.

See Also

• Krotká, a Czechoslovak 1967 screen adaptation.
• Une femme douce, a French 1972 screen adaptation.