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Status
Released
Release
1968
Runtime
1h 19m
During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.
16 Cast Members
Sergey Shakurov
Mukhin
Liliya Aleshnikova
Lida / Lidiya / Livia
Aleksandr Palees
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Valeri Kozinets
Spartacus / metro train driver
Nikolai Rybnikov
Benckendorff / Titus Valerius / inquisitor
Nikolai Sergeyev
physics teacher / Galileo Galilei
Ivan Ryzhov
senator / director / singing monk / storekeeper at St. Paul's Monastery
Yuri Chekulayev
Claudius
Semyon Safonov
equipment inspector / Roman drinker man / inquisitor priest / priest confessing Mukhin
Mikaela Drozdovskaya
student / Natalya Goncharova
Vera Ivleva
student
Svetlana Konovalova
Yevgeniya Nikolayevna
Valentina Telegina
audience's janitor / Roman woman
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Diogenes / Demosthenes / sculptor
Vladimir Grammatikov
student / Roman man
Vadim Zakharchenko
Nicholas I of Russia
