

134 minutes
7/11/1969
According to Fyodor Protasov, the surrounding life is riddled with dirt and falsehood. He does not want to participate "in all this dirty trick", he does not have the courage to fight it, and he chooses the third way — to stage suicide.

Aleksey Batalov
as Fyodor Protasov (Fedya)

Alla Demidova
as Liza

Oleg Basilashvili
as Viktor Karenin

Lidiya Shtykan
as Anna Pavlovna

Elena Chyornaya
as Sasha

Sofiya Pilyavskaya
as Anna Dmitrievna Karenina
Evgeniy Kuznetsov
as Prince Abrezkov

Svetlana Toma
as Masha the gypsy
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
as Afremov

Pantelejmon Krymov
as officer

Aleksey Kozhevnikov
as musician

Oleg Borisov
as court investigator

Nikolai Boyarsky
as Petushkov

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
as Ivan Petrovich the genius