The Precipice (1984)
Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...
Director: Vladimir Vengerov
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Georgiy Antonov as Raisky |
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Elena Finogeeva as Vera |
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Nikolay Kochegarov as Mark Volokhov |
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Rimma Markova as Tatyana Markovna Berezhkova |
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Marina Yakovleva as Marfinka |
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Yelena Solovey as Kritskaya |
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Vitaliy Shapovalov as Tushin |
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Nikolay Ivanov as Leontiy |
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Tamara Lebedeva as Ulyana |
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Oleg Korchikov as Saveli |
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Alla Tekshina as Marina |
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Oleg Stefan as Vikentyev |
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Yuriy Sherstnyov as Nil Andreyevich |
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Stepan Krylov as Yakov |
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Tamara Timofeeva as Vasilisa |
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Mikhail Semyonov as Yegorka |
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Marina Chernyshyova as Pashutka |
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Viktor Terekhov as Prokhor |
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Valery Voytyuk as Cadet |
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Aleksandr Aleksandrov as |
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Sergey Svistunov as Tit Nikonovich |
| Sound | Isaac Schwarts | Music |
| Camera | Anatoliy Zabolotskiy | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Vladimir Vengerov | Writer |
| Art | Marina Azizyan | Production Design |
| Directing | Vladimir Vengerov | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Natalya Kochergina | Costume Design |
| Sound | Konstantin Lashkov | Sound |
| Writing | Ivan Goncharov | Novel |
| Editing | Tamara Guseva | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lyudmila Kozinets | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Zhanna Rodionova | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Feliks Eskin | First Assistant Director |