Plot Summary:Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
再也不会有比奥列格达利和维索茨基更契合更令人信服的拉耶甫斯基与冯·柯连了！两个伟大演员唯一合作作品，不多但超好看的对手戏，气场强大，一版终结。阿纳托利的萨莫连科也很还原，总之除了精灵头的助祭电影改编简直完美。
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