Soviet prestige TV before it existed: 219 minutes of ideological angst and mustaches.
Mikhail Nikolaevich Ermakov has come a long and difficult life path. At the age of nineteen, the student, the son of a worker, was sent on a Komsomol ticket to work in the Cheka. In one of the operations he was seriously wounded. And now, many years later, General Ermakov comes to Moscow and settles in the house where he spent his youth...
Acting
Ivan Lapikov's weathered gravitas carries all 3.5 hours.
Production
Lavish 1970s Soviet period reconstruction, surprisingly sumptuous.
Director
Leonid Pchyolkin
Ivan Lapikov
Михаил Николаевич Ермаков
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Тимофей Кожухов / Павел Тимофеевич
Vyacheslav Rastsvetaev
Владимир Константинович Зубарев
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Геннадий Александрович Барабанов
Andrey Myagkov
Георгий Петрович Сабуров
Yevgeni Kindinov
Борис Барабанов
Anatoliy Falkovich
Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Павел Кожухов
Vladimir Kashpur
Герман Вячеславович Ковалёв
Aleksandr Grave
Николай Ермаков
Galina Popova
мать Михаила
Galina Kalinovskaya
Нина Владимировна
Galina Volchek
Ольга Дмитриевна Нефёдова
Yevgeni Gerasimov
Михаил Ермаков
Lyudmila Efimenko
Людмила Геннадьевна Барабанова
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Pyotr Proskurin's novel, this was peak 'village prose' prestige adaptation—Soviet TV's answer to literary respectability.
Andrey Myagkov appears here pre-'Irony of Fate' fame; his Saburov is basically practice for the melancholy intellectual type he'd perfect.
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