
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