Released:
1984-01-19

Overview:
Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...

Director:
Vladimir Vengerov

Runtime:
2h 16min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Georgiy Antonov
  as
  Raisky
• 
  Elena Finogeeva
  as
  Vera
• 
  Nikolay Kochegarov
  as
  Mark Volokhov
• 
  Rimma Markova
  as
  Tatyana Markovna Berezhkova
• 
  Marina Yakovleva
  as
  Marfinka