79 minutes
10/21/1968
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.
Sergey Shakurov
as Mukhin
Liliya Aleshnikova
as Lida / Lidiya / Livia
Aleksandr Palees
as Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Valeri Kozinets
as Spartacus / metro train driver
Nikolai Rybnikov
as Benckendorff / Titus Valerius / inquisitor
Nikolai Sergeyev
as physics teacher / Galileo Galilei
Ivan Ryzhov
as senator / director / singing monk / storekeeper at St. Paul's Monastery
Yuri Chekulayev
as Claudius
Semyon Safonov
as equipment inspector / Roman drinker man / inquisitor priest / priest confessing Mukhin
Mikaela Drozdovskaya
as student / Natalya Goncharova
Vera Ivleva
as student
Svetlana Konovalova
as Yevgeniya Nikolayevna
Valentina Telegina
as audience's janitor / Roman woman
Mikhail Gluzskiy
as Diogenes / Demosthenes / sculptor
Vladimir Grammatikov
as student / Roman man
Vadim Zakharchenko
as Nicholas I of Russia