Based on the play of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate “in all this dirty trick”, he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide.
Length 134 minutes
Aleksey Batalov | Alla Demidova | Oleg Basilashvili | Lidiya Shtykan | Ляля Чёрная | Sofiya Pilyavskaya | Evgeniy Kuznetsov | Svetlana Toma | Vsevolod Kuznetsov | Pantelejmon Krymov | Aleksey Kozhevnikov | Oleg Borisov | Nikolai Boyarsky | Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy