
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
Cast

Oleg Dal
Layevski

Vladimir Vysotsky
Von Koren

Lyudmila Maksakova
Nadezhda Fyodorovna

Yuri Medvedev
Sheshkovsky

Anatoliy Papanov
Dr. Samoylenko

Georgiy Korolchuk
Pobedov

Anatoliy Azo
Kirilin
Ashot Melikjanyan
Achmianov

Lyubov Malinovskaya
Marya Bityugova

Andrei Apsolon
Bityugov

Ángel Gutiérrez
Achmianov Sr.

Igor Efimov
Boyko

Pavel Kashlakov
Unknown

German Lupekin
Unknown

Ashot Nersisyan
Unknown

Geliy Sysoev
Unknown
Lyubov Tishchenko
Unknown
Oleg Khromenkov
Unknown
Crew

Iosif Kheifits
Director, Writer

Leonid Rakhmanov
Script Editor

Anton Chekhov
Novel
Stera Gorakova
Editor
Tamara Guseva
Assistant Editor

Genrikh Marandzhyan
Director of Photography
Lydumila Krivitskaya
First Assistant Director
G. Chernyaev
Second Assistant Director
Mikhail Gendenshteyn
Executive Producer
L. Svetlov
Executive Producer

Isaak Kaplan
Production Design
S. Ivanov
Camera Operator
Anatoliy Kudryavtsev
Camera Operator
G. Krakhmalnikova
Assistant Camera
Liliya Moshkina
Costume Design
Nikolai Elenbogen
Makeup & Hair
G. Vdovichenko
Makeup & Hair

Yevgeni Tatarsky
Second Unit Director
Igor Vigdorchik
Sound Director

Nadezhda Simonyan
Original Music Composer
Aleksei Shkele
Set Designer
M. Struchkova
Assistant Production Design
M. Krakovskiy
Assistant Production Design
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