Screen adaptation of the chapter of the same name from Mikhail Lermontov's “A Hero of Our Time”. Pechorin, having learned about his friend Grushnitsky's passion for Princess Mary Ligovskaya, out of boredom and a desire to annoy the completely false cadet, falls in love with the girl. The film tells about the romantic story of Pechorin, whose reckless love game turns into a tragedy for himself - a man who clearly does not fit into the laws of the time in which fate has sentenced him to live...
as Pechorin
as knyazhna Meri
as Vera
as Werner - doctor
as Grushnitsky
as knyaginya Ligovskaya
as knyaz' Ligovskoy - muzh Very
as dragunskiy kapitan
as dama s borodavkoy na balu
as p'yanyy na balu
as Rayevich - moskovskiy frant
as Apfel'baum - fokusnik
as ofitser na balu
