No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
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...Read moreLess
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...
The story
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 & crew
Sergey TaramaevPeredonov
Irina RozanovaVarvara
Polina KutepovaLyudmila
Sergey BatalovVolodin
Aleksei MironovKhripach
Gennadiy NazarovRutilov
Agrippina SteklovaDaria
Kseniya KutepovaValeriya
Elena MayorovaVershina
Tatyana KravchenkoYershikha
Galina StakhanovaKokovkina
Nikolai AveryushkinDoctorExplore the crew
- Director
- Nikolay Dostal
- Writer
- Georgi Nikolayev
- Director of Photography
- Valery Shuvalov
- Editor
- Mariya Sergeyeva