Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to marry her, but the relationship is not going to be simple.
Acting
Lyubshin's restrained desperation is masterclass subtlety.
Cinematography
Gloomy Russian interiors that breathe with unspoken regret.
Director
Dmitriy Dolinin
Stanislav Lyubshin
Aleksei Laptev
Albert Filozov
Fyodor Laptev
Svetlana Smirnova
Yulia Belavina
Sergei Plotnikov
Fyodor Laptev Sr.
Nikolai Pastukhov
Sergei Belavin
Iya Savvina
Nina Lapteva
Yuriy Yakovlev
Grigory Panaurov
Alisa Freyndlikh
Polina Razsudin
Valentin Gaft
Ivan Yartsev
Vladimir Nosik
Kostya Kotchevoy
Stanislav Khitrov
Igor Bezyaev
Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Evgeniy Bykadorov
Valentina Klyagina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Chekhov's 1895 story 'Three Years,' written during his own failed engagement.
The TV film was shot during the dying days of Soviet television's golden age of literary adaptation.
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