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...
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Oleg Dal
Layevski
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Vladimir Vysotsky
Von Koren
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The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
Lyudmila Maksakova
Nadezhda Fyodorovna
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Attraction
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Yuri Medvedev
Sheshkovsky
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The Twelve Chairs
Wings
Anatoliy Papanov
Dr. Samoylenko
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Well, Just You Wait!
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Anatoliy Azo
Kirilin
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Ashot Melikjanyan
Achmianov
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Yearning
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Lyubov Malinovskaya
Marya Bityugova
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Andrei Apsolon
Bityugov
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The Brave Seven
Crown Prince of the Republic
Ángel Gutiérrez
Achmianov Sr.
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Mirror
Hail, Mary!
Igor Efimov
Boyko
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
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Pavel Kashlakov
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Iosif Kheifits Director · Anton Chekhov Author Nadezhda Simonyan Composer
United States release December 25, 1973 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Плохой хороший человек
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Плохой хороший человек
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · December 20, 1973
Theatrical
United States · December 25, 1973
Theatrical
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