

94 minutes
1/6/1969
It is a story of the relationship of A French writer and a beautiful duchess Ganskaya. The events take place in a picturesque estate of the aristocrat on the Ukrainian land, which is under the power of Polish landowners. Ganskaya is considered to be the most important woman in Balzac’s life.

Rufina Nifontova
as Comtesse Evelina Hanska

Viktor Khokhryakov
as Honoré de Balzac

Vladimir Belokurov
as Zarytskyi

Stepan Birillo
as Gosslen, publisher

Ivan Mykolaichuk
as Levko, a serf lackey of Countess Evelina Hanska
Yaroslav Gelias
as colonel Karol Hanskyi

Rayisa Nedashkivska
as Anna Mnishek

Georgi Georgiu
as Halperin, banker

Vladimir Gajdarov
as General Bibikov

Ivan Dmitriev
as Moskalenko

Igor Dmitriev
as Davydov

Valeriya Zaklunnaya
as Maryna

Mikhail Sidorkin
as Sherstinevich

Harijs Liepiņš
as Yankovsky, a priest

Yevheniya Opalova
as mother of Balzac

Nikolai Kryukov
as Victor Hugo

Sergei Polezhayev
as Nicholas I
Lyalya Bobrova
as Gypsy
Aleksey Tarshin
as Konetspolskyi

Ivan Kononenko-Kozelskyi
as episode

Pyotr Mikhnevich
as episode

Konstantin Adashevsky
as Academician