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...
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Sergey Taramaev
Peredonov
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Irina Rozanova
Varvara
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Polina Kutepova
Lyudmila
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Sergey Batalov
Volodin
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Aleksei Mironov
Khripach
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Gennadiy Nazarov
Rutilov
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Agrippina Steklova
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Kseniya Kutepova
Valeriya
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Elena Mayorova
Vershina
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Tatyana Kravchenko
Yershikha
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Galina Stakhanova
Kokovkina
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80's
Nikolai Averyushkin
Doctor
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Nikolay Dostal Director · Georgi Nikolayev Writer Fyodor Sologub Author
First release February 15, 1995 · Produced in Russia · Original title Мелкий бес
Production
Mosfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Мелкий бес
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · February 15, 1995
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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