Father Sergius
Отец Сергий
Release: 1978-09-05
·Runtime: 99m
·★ 2.5
Drama
A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Irina Skobtseva
as lady at the ball
Valentin Kulik
as landlord
Eduard Izotov
as lawyer
Nikolai Gritsenko
as general
Georgi Burkov
as merchant
Vatslav Dvorzhetsky
as director of the cadet corps
Yuriy Nazarov
as man on the ferry
Andrey Smolyakov
as Alyosha
Sergey Bondarchuk
as Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius
Olga Anokhina
as merchant's daughter
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
as gentleman on the ferry
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
as lady (uncredited)
Boris Ivanov
as hegumen
Lyudmila Maksakova
as Makovkina
Alla Demidova
as Pashenka
Nikolay Gorlov
as отец Никодим
Ivan Lapikov
as old man on the ferry
Valentina Titova
as Mary Korotkova
Ivan Solovyov
as bishop Nikodim
Yevgeny Gurov
as general (uncredited)
Vladislav Strzhelchik
as Nicholas I
Aleksandr Lebedev
as monk
Vladimir Mashchenko
as captain Schwartz
