Exposing the customs of provincial philistinism in the years of NEP. Small town. Mitya, going to the party of his bride Shurochka, finds a dying woman with infants. When he comes to visit the child, everyone decides that he was the father - and kicks him out. Mitya decides to drown himself. Unknown saves him and helps to stage his own funeral. During the mourning ceremony, Mitya rise from the grave, thanks the inhabitants petrified by horror, and leaves the city forever.
as Mitya
as Sofochka
as Poet-reporter
as Unknown
as Shurochka Gryaznova
as Volodya Gryaznov
as Onion-stealing beggar
as Shurochka's mother
as Kazak
as Drunk best man
as Sober best man
as Mitya's mother
as Beggar who robs Mitya
as Nervy nobleman
as Villager
as Dance steward
