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Fyodor Otsep, the director, had previously been the writer of the 1916 Russian silent version directed by Yakov Protazanov.
Original literary work: "Pikovaja Dama" (The Queen of Spades), short story by Alexander Pushkin, written in November 1833, published in March 1834 it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka dlya chteniya.