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...
Director: Iosif Kheifits
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Oleg Dal as Layevski |
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Vladimir Vysotsky as Von Koren |
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Lyudmila Maksakova as Nadezhda Fyodorovna |
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Yuri Medvedev as Sheshkovsky |
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Anatoliy Papanov as Dr. Samoylenko |
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Georgiy Korolchuk as Pobedov |
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Anatoliy Azo as Kirilin |
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Ashot Melikjanyan as Achmianov |
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Lyubov Malinovskaya as Marya Bityugova |
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Andrei Apsolon as Bityugov |
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Ángel Gutiérrez as Achmianov Sr. |
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Igor Efimov as Boyko |
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Pavel Kashlakov as |
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German Lupekin as |
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Ashot Nersisyan as |
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Geliy Sysoev as |
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Lyubov Tishchenko as |
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Oleg Khromenkov as |
| Directing | Iosif Kheifits | Director |
| Writing | Anton Chekhov | Novel |
| Sound | Nadezhda Simonyan | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Iosif Kheifits | Writer |
| Camera | Genrikh Marandzhyan | Director of Photography |
| Art | Isaak Kaplan | Production Design |
| Directing | Yevgeni Tatarsky | Second Unit Director |
| Sound | Igor Vigdorchik | Sound Director |
| Camera | S. Ivanov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Anatoliy Kudryavtsev | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Liliya Moshkina | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nikolai Elenbogen | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | G. Vdovichenko | Makeup & Hair |
| Art | Aleksei Shkele | Set Designer |
| Editing | Stera Gorakova | Editor |
| Writing | Leonid Rakhmanov | Script Editor |
| Editing | Tamara Guseva | Assistant Editor |
| Art | M. Struchkova | Assistant Production Design |
| Art | M. Krakovskiy | Assistant Production Design |
| Camera | G. Krakhmalnikova | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Lyudmila Krivitskaya | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | G. Chernyaev | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Mikhail Gendenshteyn | Executive Producer |
| Production | L. Svetlov | Executive Producer |