A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
Released: Feb 15, 1995
Runtime: 107 minutes
Stars: Sergey Taramaev, Irina Rozanova, Polina Kutepova, Sergey Batalov, Aleksei Mironov, Gennadiy Nazarov
Crew: Nikolay Dostal (Director), Fyodor Sologub (Novel), Georgi Nikolayev (Writer)