Dery is a grande dame actress of the Sarah Bernhardt school of big-gesture theater. Her beauty and popularity is fading, and a new school of acting which involves the use of one's own emotions (a-la Eleanora Duse) is emerging in the person of her younger Viennese rival. She thinks of retiring from the stage, and reunites briefly with her estranged husband in a newly-built manor in the country. Finding that life there is boring, she returns to town, the theater, and her old friends.

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Cast

Mari Törőcsik

Déryné

Ferenc Kállai

Déry

Mária Sulyok

Déry anyja

Imre Ráday

Intendáns

Tamás Major

Jancsó, öreg színész

Cecília Esztergályos

Schodelné

Kornél Gelley

Magyar úr, dilettáns színész

András Kozák

Ifjú gróf

András Schiff

Zongorázó fiú

Zsuzsa Zolnay

Capuletné

Gyöngyvér Vigh

Színésznõ