Overview
In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life has been given. The idea of the film is to determine the purpose and meaning of the existence of the human person, consider its polysyllabic and versatile connections with the world.
Director and cast
- Mikhail Ulyanov as Yegor Bulychyov
- Maya Bulgakova as Kseniya
- Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Alexandra
- Zinaida Slavina as Varvara
- Anatoliy Romashin as Zvontsov
- Evgeniy Steblov as Tyatin
- Rimma Markova as Melaniya
- Vladimir Yemelyanov as Mokei Bashkin
- Efim Kopelyan as Vasili Dostigayev
- Valentina Sharykina as Yelizaveta
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