94 minutos
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.
Vladimir Gardin
Porfiriy Golovlyov (Yudishka)
Tatyana Bulakh-Gardina
Annenka
Nina Latonina
Lubinka
Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya
Ulita (the housekeeper)
Mikhail Tarkhanov
Dergunov (the merchant)
Irina Zarubina
Evprakseya
Vladimir Taskin
Petenka
Pavel Bogdanov
Kukishev
Elena Volyntseva
old woman
Vera Streshneva
Galkina
Nadezhda Skarskaya
grandmother
Stepan Kayukov
Ignat (clerk)
Lev Klochkovskiy
Pavel Golovlyov
Valentin Kiselyov
Foka
Sergei Neradovskiy
Gavrilo Liulkin
Aleksand Usachev
Ivan Chuvelyov
peasant
Nikolay Urvantsov
enterpreneur
Boris Zhukovsky
Konstantin Gibshman
uncredited
Nikolay Kondratiev
incredited