A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.
Director
Igor Talankin
Sergey Bondarchuk
Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius
Valentina Titova
Mary Korotkova
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Nicholas I
Nikolai Gritsenko
general
Boris Ivanov
hegumen
Ivan Lapikov
old man on the ferry
Ivan Solovyov
bishop Nikodim
Lyudmila Maksakova
Makovkina
Georgi Burkov
merchant
Olga Anokhina
merchant's daughter
Alla Demidova
Pashenka
Irina Skobtseva
lady at the ball
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