Yudishka Golovlyov
1934-01-23 | 94 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Vladimir GardinPorfiriy Golovlyov (Yudishka)
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Tatyana Bulakh-GardinaAnnenka
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Nina LatoninaLubinka
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Ekaterina Korchagina-AleksandrovskayaUlita (the housekeeper)
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Mikhail TarkhanovDergunov (the merchant)
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Irina ZarubinaEvprakseya
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Vladimir TaskinPetenka
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Vera StreshnevaGalkina
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Stepan KayukovIgnat (clerk)
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Ivan Chuvelyovpeasant
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Boris Zhukovsky