Father Sergius

Father Sergius

99 mins | Drama | Sept. 5, 1978

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.

Father Sergius

99 mins | Drama | Sept. 5, 1978

Father Sergius
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Отец Сергий
Directors Igor Talankin
Writers Igor Talankin, Leo Tolstoy

Cast

Sergey Bondarchuk

as Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius

Valentina Titova

as Mary Korotkova

Vladislav Strzhelchik

as Nicholas I

Nikolai Gritsenko

as general

Boris Ivanov

as hegumen

Ivan Lapikov

as old man on the ferry

Ivan Solovyov

as bishop Nikodim

Lyudmila Maksakova

as Makovkina

Georgi Burkov

as merchant

Olga Anokhina

as merchant's daughter

Alla Demidova

as Pashenka

Dmitri Streltsov

as cadet Stepan Kasatsky

Alexei Proskuryakov

as little Stivenka

Aleksandra Levchenko

as little Pashenka

Irina Skobtseva

as lady at the ball

Aleksandr Dik

as marquess

Aleksandr Belyavskiy

as gentleman on the ferry

Yekaterina Bystrova

as Mary Korotkova's daughter

Nikolai Gorlov

as father Nikodim

Vatslav Dvorzhetsky

as director of the cadet corps

Eduard Izotov

as lawyer

Valentin Kulik

as landlord

Vladimir Mashchenko

as captain Schwartz

Yuriy Nazarov

as man on the ferry

Andrey Smolyakov

as Alyosha

Arkadi Trusov

as priest

Svetlana Svetlichnaya

as lady (uncredited)

Yevgeni Gurov

as general (uncredited)