Overview
A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
Cast
- Sergey Taramaev as Peredonov
- Irina Rozanova as Varvara
- Polina Kutepova as Lyudmila
- Sergey Batalov as Volodin
- Aleksei Mironov as Khripach
- Gennadiy Nazarov as Rutilov
- Agrippina Steklova as Daria
- Kseniya Kutepova as Valeriya
- Elena Mayorova as Vershina
- Tatyana Kravchenko as Yershikha