About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...
as Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
as Ogaryov
as Natasha
as Granovskiy
as Ketcher
as Shchepkin
as official
as Ivan Alekseyevich Yakovlev
as Luiza Ivanovna
as countess Khovanskaya
as footman
as prince
as Vasiliy Petrovich
as official
as general Dubelt
as accused man of arson
as official
as ober-polizeimeister
as Zurov
as Musina-Pushkina
as official
as Nikolai Sazonov
as aunt in Khovanskaya's house
as guard
as official
as prison commandant
as Granovskiy's wife
as prince Obolenskiy (uncredited)
as nanny (uncredited)
as official (uncredited)
as maid (uncredited)
as officer (uncredited)
as Matvey
