The Duel

The Duel

98 mins | Drama, History | Dec. 20, 1973

Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...

The Duel

98 mins | Drama, History | Dec. 20, 1973

The Duel
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Lenfilm
Original title Плохой хороший человек
Directors Iosif Kheifits
Writers Anton Chekhov

Cast

Oleg Dal

as Layevski

Vladimir Vysotsky

as Фон Корен

Lyudmila Maksakova

as Nadezhda Fyodorovna

Yuri Medvedev

as Sheshkovsky

Anatoli Papanov

as Dr. Samoylenko