In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life has been given. The idea of the film is to determine the purpose and meaning of the existence of the human person, consider its polysyllabic and versatile connections with the world.
Mikhail Ulyanov
Yegor Bulychyov
Maya Bulgakova
Kseniya
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Alexandra
Zinaida Slavina
Varvara
Anatoliy Romashin
Zvontsov
Evgeniy Steblov
Tyatin
Rimma Markova
Melaniya
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Mokei Bashkin
Efim Kopelyan
Vasili Dostigayev
In the center of the film is a powerful, peculiar, talented Russian man, the largest timber merchant Yegor Bulychyov. He is experiencing a tragic discord with himself, with the world that surrounds him, with great social injustice, to which his whole life has been given. The idea of the film is to determine the purpose and meaning of the existence of the human person, consider its polysyllabic and versatile connections with the world.
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