Screenwriter Antonín Máša wrote a television production Zurvalec based on Turgenev's short story. It is a psychological drama about the conflicting encounter between Lieutenant Kister and the dangerous duelant Captain Luchkov, who drives away the boredom of an empty life in a backwater province with a series of violent acts. The tense relationship between the two men, expressing a contradiction of creative tolerance and aggression, is exacerbated by their interest in a woman who succumbs to admiration for the "predator" Luchkov. The tragic confrontation of different approaches to life raises the question of the possibilities of defending human decency over evil.
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Ingrid Timková
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Ján Gallovič
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Zora Kolínská
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Ľubomír Paulovič
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Matej Landl
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Peter Mankovecký
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Vladimír Jedľovský
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Ľubo Gregor
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Štefan Kožka
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Vladimír Strnisko Director · Antonín Máša Screenplay Ladislav Halama Editor
First release January 1, 1993 · Produced in Slovakia
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Slovakia
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Slovak
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Slovak
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Slovakia · January 1, 1993
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