Leonid Fomin

Based on the eponymous drama by L.N. Tolstoy. The television version of the performance by the Mossovet Theater.

A critical article about the unjustified deforestation was published in the regional newspaper during the absence of the editor-in-chief. The author of the article was fired. The editor’s long-time friend, the deputy editor, also found himself in a difficult position.

A young man arrives in a village to visit his uncle, a retired colonel, and finds the local community "enslaved" by a man who, according to him, "will remain in history." The situation develops into a tragicomedy and takes on elements of phantasmagoria.