Released:
1966-10-14

Overview:
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.

Directors:
Earl Dawson, Larry Arrick

Runtime:
2h 0min

Genre:
Drama, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Dustin Hoffman
  as
  Zoditch
• 
  William Bassett
  as
  Rubin / Narvinsky
• 
  Charlotte Rae
  as
  Terentievna
• 
  Susan Anspach
  as
  Miss Gruboy / Elizaveta
• 
  Nicholas Saunders