Film-play of the Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army based on A.N. Ostrovsky's play. In a wealthy merchant's house, young beauty Vera Filippovna languishes like a bird in a cage. At the age of 15, she married the rich man Karkunov. Vera Filippovna never loved her husband, but, being a decent young woman, she was a faithful wife to him. Suddenly, the old man, her husband, is about to die and cannot decide whom to leave his fortune to — his wife, his nephew, or perhaps give it all to the poor. The action revolves around this money...
as Потап Потапыч Каркунов
as Вера Филипповна
as Исай Данилыч Халымов
as Аполлинария Панфиловна
as Константин Лукич Каркунов
as Ольга Дмитриевна
as Ераст
as Огуревна
as Иннокентий
