Katerina Ismailova is wealthily married and lonely, her husband impotent and her father-in-law a tyrant. She is trapped in a world where merciless brutality, despotism and cruelty reign. The woman with a lust for life and love gives way to her raw longing for freedom when a new labourer Sergei starts working for the Ismailov family. She throws herself into a passionate affair with him and poisons her father-in-law's food. But the increasing radicalism of her desire for self-determination will claim further victims...
as Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov
as Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov
as Katerina Lvovna Izmailova
as Sergei
as Aksinya
as Tattered peasant
as Steward
as Porter / Old Convict
as Priest
as Police Inspector
as Sonyetka
as Policeman
as 1st Workman
as 2nd Workman
as 3rd Workman
