(Иудушка Головлев)

Content: Film adaptation of The Golovlyov Family ("Господа Головлёвы), a classic novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the mid-19th century old-fashioned estate based on serfdom laws and traditions, tough and shrewd Arina Petrovna tries her best to make her realm prosper and even expand – despite unwillingness of her husband and three of her four children to lend helping hands... Ten years on, serfdom abolished, and now Porfiry-Yudishka, the epitome of a corrupt, cruel hypocrite, becomes the heir to the estate. Dullness and horrors of life, spent in destroying everybody around him, finally makes him to slowly realize things went somehow wrong. Half-mad, apparently, he goes to the cemetery to "ask for forgiveness" from his mother Arina Petrovna, and dies somewhere along his way, his frozen corpse found the next day.

Countries:

Soviet Union

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Runtime:

94 minutes

Year:

1934

Directors:

Aleksandr Ivanovsky

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Production companies:

Soyuzfilm

Actors:

Porfiriy Golovlyov (Yudishka)

Annenka

Lubinka

Ulita (the housekeeper)

Dergunov (the merchant)

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