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...

Genres

Cast

Sergey Taramaev

Peredonov

Irina Rozanova

Varvara

Polina Kutepova

Lyudmila

Sergey Batalov

Volodin

Aleksei Mironov

Khripach

Gennadiy Nazarov

Rutilov

Agrippina Steklova

Daria

Kseniya Kutepova

Valeriya

Elena Mayorova

Vershina

Tatyana Kravchenko

Yershikha

Galina Stakhanova

Kokovkina

Nikolai Averyushkin

Doctor