Father Sergius
1978A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.
Acted in
Sergey Bondarchuk
as Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius
Valentina Titova
as Mary Korotkova
Vladislav Strzhelchik
as Nicholas I
Nikolai Gritsenko
as general
Boris Ivanov
as hegumen
Ivan Lapikov
as old man on the ferry
Ivan Solovyov
as bishop Nikodim
Lyudmila Maksakova
as Makovkina
Georgi Burkov
as merchant
Olga Anokhina
as merchant's daughter
Alla Demidova
as Pashenka
Dmitri Streltsov
as cadet Stepan Kasatsky
Alexei Proskuryakov
as little Stivenka
Aleksandra Levchenko
as little Pashenka
Irina Skobtseva
as lady at the ball
Aleksandr Dik
as marquess
Aleksandr Belyavskiy
as gentleman on the ferry
Yekaterina Bystrova
as Mary Korotkova's daughter
Vatslav Dvorzhetsky
as director of the cadet corps
Eduard Izotov
as lawyer
Valentin Kulik
as landlord
Aleksandr Lebedev
as monk
Vladimir Mashchenko
as captain Schwartz
Yuriy Nazarov
as man on the ferry
Andrey Smolyakov
as Alyosha
Arkadi Trusov
as priest
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
as lady (uncredited)
Yevgeni Gurov
as general (uncredited)
Nikolay Gorlov
as отец Никодим
