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The Duel (1973)
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...
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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...
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Genre:Drama, History
Written By:Iosif Kheifits
In Theaters:12/25/1973
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Runtime:98 minutes
Studio:Lenfilm
Cast
Iosif Kheifits
Director
Oleg Dal
Layevski
Vladimir Vysotsky
Von Koren
Lyudmila Maksakova
Nadezhda Fyodorovna
Yuri Medvedev
Sheshkovsky
Anatoliy Papanov
Dr. Samoylenko
Georgi Korolchuk
Pobedov
Anatoliy Azo
Kirilin
Ashot Melikjanyan
Achmianov
Lyubov Malinovskaya
Marya Bityugova
Andrei Apsolon
Bityugov
Ángel Gutiérrez
Achmianov Sr.
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