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Status
Released
Release
1979
Runtime
2h 14m
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A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…
13 Cast Members
Boris Plotnikov
Andrey Beloretsky, ethnographer
Elena Dimitrova
Nadezhda Yanovskaya, mistress of the estate Marsh Yalins
Boris Khmelnitsky
Ales' Vorona
Albert Filozov
Ignatius Berman-Gatsevich, manager of the Janowski estate
Valentina Shendrikova
Widow Mrs. Kulsha
Roman Filippov
pan Dubotovk
Mariya Kapnist
housekeeper
Viktor Ilichyov
bailiff
Boris Romanov
forensic investigator
Yuriy Dubrovin
forensic doctor
Alexander Kharitonov
Andrey Svetilovich
Igor Klass
Rygor
Vladimir Fyodorov
Basil Gatsevich, brother of Ignatius
