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Status
Released
Release
1934
Runtime
1h 44m
A loose Communist adaptation of a Dostoyevsky novel. The serf Egor Efimov, a talented violinist, dreams of true art. Released by his landlord, he goes to the capital. But cold, bureaucratic St. Petersburg quickly destroys his illusions.
23 Cast Members
Borys Dobronravov
Yegor Yefimov, violinist
Kseniya Tarasova
Nastenka
Lyubov Orlova
Grushenka
Anatoli Goryunov
Schultz
Lev Fenin
Valemirov, landowner
Igor Doronin
Student
Ivan Kudryavtsev
Ivan Vasilyev
Sergei Vecheslov
Tavern visitor
Antonin Pankryshev
Gendarme
Leonid Yurenyov
His Excellency
Aleksandr Kostomolotsky
Entrepreneur
Naum Rogozhin
D. Tarasov
Yakov Rykov
Tetiana Barysheva
Provincial actress (uncredited)
Antonina Maksimova
Nihilistic student (uncredited)
Georgi Millyar
Gossip teller (uncredited)
Sofya Levitina
(uncredited)
Serafim Koziminsky
Student / Convict
Georgy Bobynin
Official (uncredited)
