The Journey of the Fifth Horse (1966)
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.
Directors: Earl Dawson, Larry Arrick.
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Dustin Hoffman as Zoditch |
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William Bassett as Rubin / Narvinsky |
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Charlotte Rae as Terentievna |
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Susan Anspach as Miss Gruboy / Elizaveta |
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Nicholas Saunders as |
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Michael Tolan as Nikolai Alexeyvich Chulkaturin |
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Lee Wallace as |
| Directing | Earl Dawson | Director |
| Production | Jac Venza | Producer |
| Writing | Ronald Ribman | Writer |
| Directing | Larry Arrick | Director |
| Production | Virginia Kassel | Associate Producer |
| Writing | Ivan Turgenev | Book |