The Old House

The Old House

1970 · 84 min · ★ 7.5 · Drama

About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...

Directed by Boris Buneev · Written by Nina Rudneva

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Andrey Myagkov Herzen
Rodion Nahapetov Ogarev
Olga Gobzeva Natasha
Boris Kumaritov Granovskiy
Nikita Podgornyj Ketcher
Nikolay Dubinskiy Shchepkin
Aleksei Chernov official
Evgeniy Evstigneev Ivan Alekseyevich Yakovlev
Galina Grigoryeva Luiza Ivanovna
Yevgeniya Khovanskaya countess Khovanskaya
Andrey Fayt footman
Evgeniy Samoylov

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