The Russian nobleman Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov cannot put up with the hypocrisy of his environment, but is powerless to fight it. He begins to drink, leaves the house and gradually falls. The behavior of Protasov helps to bring his wife Liza closer to a longtime friend of the family, Viktor Karenin. Unable to endure the lies and humiliation associated with the upcoming divorce proceedings, Fedya pretends to commit suicide and seemed to forever leave his family. It is only due to the accident that it becomes known that Fedor Protasov is alive. Liza, reconciled with the death of her husband and became the wife of Karenin, is summoned to court on charges of duality. To stop the stupid and deceitful comedy of the court and rid the shame of innocent people, Protasov shoots himself.
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Nikolai Simonov
Fyodor Vasilievich Protasov (Fedya)
Galina Iniutina
Yelizaveta Andreyevna Protasova (Liza)
Yelizaveta Time
Anna Pavlovna, Liza's Mother
Klavdiya Trofimova
Sasha, Liza's Sister
Anatoly Dubensky
Viktor Mikhailovich Karenin
Elizaveta Gikhareva
Anna Dmitriyevna Karenina, Viktor's Mother
Yakov Malyutin
Sergei Dmitriyevich Abrezkov, Knyaz
Olga Lebzak
Masha the Gypsy
Konstantin Adashevsky
Afremov
Aleksandr Chekayevsky
Ivan Petrovich Aleksandrov
Mikhail Yekaterininskiy
Petushkov the Artist
Aleksand Kireyev
Artemyev
Bruno Frejndlikh
Judicial Investigator
Gennadi Michurin
Petrushin the Lawyer
Sergei Sorokin
Head of the Gypsy Choir
