Overview
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 as Layevski
- Vladimir Vysotsky as Von Koren
- Lyudmila Maksakova as Nadezhda Fyodorovna
- Yuri Medvedev as Sheshkovsky
- Anatoliy Papanov as Dr. Samoylenko
- Georgiy Korolchuk as Pobedov
- Anatoliy Azo as Kirilin
- Ashot Melikjanyan as Achmianov
- Lyubov Malinovskaya as Marya Bityugova
- Andrei Apsolon as Bityugov