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The Theme

5.619791h 38mMovieDrama

In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he…

DirectorGleb Panfilov
WritersAleksandr Chervinsky·Gleb Panfilov
ProducerVladimir Repnikov

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Cast · Directed by Gleb Panfilov

MUMikhail Ulyanov
Mikhail Ulyanov
Kim Yesenin
ICInna Churikova
Inna Churikova
Sasha Nikolayeva
YVYevgeni Vesnik
Yevgeni Vesnik
Pashchin
YN
Yevgeniya Nechayeva
Mariya Aleksandrovna
SNSergey Nikonenko
Sergey Nikonenko
Sinitsyn
NSNatalya Seleznyova
Natalya Seleznyova
Svetlana
SLStanislav Lyubshin
Stanislav Lyubshin
'Bearded'
TP
Tolya Panfilov
GIGalina Ilyina
Galina Ilyina

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