The Old House

The Old House

84 mins | Drama | March 23, 1970

About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...

The Old House

84 mins | Drama | March 23, 1970

The Old House
About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...
Producers Gorky Film Studios
Original title Старый дом
Directors Boris Buneev
Writers Nina Rudneva, Iosif Olshansky

Cast

Andrey Myagkov

as Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

Rodion Nahapetov

as Ogaryov

Olga Gobzeva

as Natasha

Boris Kumaritov

as Granovskiy

Nikita Podgornyj

as Ketcher

Nikolay Dubinskiy

as Shchepkin

Alexei Chernov

as official

Evgeniy Evstigneev

as Ivan Alekseyevich Yakovlev

Galina Grigoryeva

as Luiza Ivanovna

Yevgeniya Khovanskaya

as countess Khovanskaya

Andrey Fayt

as footman

Igor Dmitriev

as Vasiliy Petrovich

Georgiy Teykh

as official

Pavel Shpringfeld

as general Dubelt

Boris Grigoryev

as accused man of arson

Valentin Bryleev

as official

Nikolai Brilling

as ober-polizeimeister

Dmitriy Masanov

as Zurov

Inna Vykhodtseva

as Musina-Pushkina

Yuri Shvyryov

as official

Vladimir Matyukhin

as Matvey

Yevgeni Kindinov

as Nikolai Sazonov

Lidiya Korolyova

as aunt in Khovanskaya's house

Georgi Millyar

as guard

Vsevolod Davydov

as official

Oleg Mokshantsev

as prison commandant

Svetlana Ketlerova

as Granovskiy's wife

Artur Nishchyonkin

as officer (uncredited)

Igor Starygin

as prince Obolenskiy (uncredited)

Anastasiya Filippova

as nanny (uncredited)

Nikolai Romanov

as official (uncredited)

Nina Shorina

as maid (uncredited)