Release Date
23 Jan, 1934
Runtime
01:34: (HH:MM)
Synopsis
Film adaptation of The Golovlyov Family ("Господа Головлёвы), a classic novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the mid-19th century old-fashioned estate based on serfdom laws and traditions, tough and shrewd Arina Petrovna tries her best to make her realm prosper and even expand – despite unwillingness of her husband and three of her four children to lend helping hands... Ten years on, serfdom abolished, and now Porfiry-Yudishka, the epitome of a corrupt, cruel hypocrite, becomes the heir to the estate. Dullness and horrors of life, spent in destroying everybody around him, finally makes him to slowly realize things went somehow wrong. Half-mad, apparently, he goes to the cemetery to "ask for forgiveness" from his mother Arina Petrovna, and dies somewhere along his way, his frozen corpse found the next day.
Original Title
Иудушка Головлев
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Actors
Vladimir Gardin
Tatyana Bulakh-Gardina
Nina Latonina
Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya
Михаил Тарханов
Ирина Зарубина
Vladimir Taskin
Vera Streshneva
Stepan Kayukov
Ivan Chuvelyov
Борис Жуковский
Crew
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Vladimir Egorov