Released:
1955-08-17

Overview:
Screen adaptation of the chapter of the same name from Mikhail Lermontov's “A Hero of Our Time”. Pechorin, having learned about his friend Grushnitsky's passion for Princess Mary Ligovskaya, out of boredom and a desire to annoy the completely false cadet, falls in love with the girl. The film tells about the romantic story of Pechorin, whose reckless love game turns into a tragedy for himself - a man who clearly does not fit into the laws of the time in which fate has sentenced him to live...

Director:
Isidor Annensky

Runtime:
1h 36min

Genre:
Drama, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Anatoliy Verbitskiy
  as
  Pechorin
• 
  Karina Shmarinova
  as
  knyazhna Meri
• 
  Tatyana Piletskaya
  as
  Vera
• 
  Mikhail Astangov
  as
  Werner - doctor
• 
  Leonid Gubanov
  as
  Grushnitsky