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The Journey of the Fifth Horse (1966)
Directed by Earl Dawson, Larry Arrick
Overview
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don’t square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he’s assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.
Length 120 minutes
Actors
Dustin Hoffman | William Bassett | Charlotte Rae | Susan Anspach | Nicholas Saunders | Michael Tolan | Lee Wallace