Top cast
Sergei Kurilov
Belinsky
Aleksandr Borisov
Gertsen
Vladimir Chestnokov
Nekrasov
Georgiy Vitsin
Gogol
Nikolai Afanasyev
Lermontov
Igor Litovkin
Turgenev
Nina Mamayeva
Belinskaya
Yuri Lyubimov
Frolov
Vladimir Belokurov
Barsukov
Konstantin Skorobogatov
Krestyanin
Boris Dmokhovsky
Dubelt
Mikhail Nazvanov
Nikolai I
Yuriy Tolubeev
Schepkin
Konstantin Adashevsky
Belinskiy's opponent / Peddler
Nikolay Kharitonov
student at gallery
Lev Kolesov
Kraevskiy
Aleksandr Chekayevsky
(uncredited)
Directed by
Grigori Kozintsev
Written by
Yuri German, Grigori Kozintsev, Elena Serebrovskaya
