Father Sergius

• 2.5 Drama
• 1978-09-05
• 99 minutes mins

A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.

Starring:

Sergei Bondarchuk (Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius) Valentina Titova (Mary Korotkova) Vladislav Strzhelchik (Nicholas I) Nikolai Gritsenko (general) Boris Ivanov (hegumen) Ivan Lapikov (old man on the ferry) Ivan Solovyov (bishop Nikodim) Lyudmila Maksakova (Makovkina) Georgi Burkov (merchant) Olga Anokhina (merchant's daughter)

Director:

Igor Talankin

Writer:

Igor Talankin