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Director:
Andrzej Wajda
Writers:
Jean-Claude Carrière (scenario)
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Release Date:
24 February 1988 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
This story begins in 1870 at a little town somewhere in Russia. It processed the real "Nyecsajev story"... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
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An excellent franco polish production, prophetic. more (1 total)

Cast

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Isabelle Huppert ... Maria Sjatov
Jutta Lampe ... Maria Lebjadkin

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu ... Lisa
Bernard Blier ... Le gouverneur
Jean-Philippe Écoffey ... Peter Verchovenskij
Laurent Malet ... Kirillov
Jerzy Radziwilowicz ... Sjatov

Omar Sharif ... Stepan

Lambert Wilson ... Nikolaj Stavrogin
Philippe Chambon ... Chigalev
Jean-Quentin Châtelain ... Virguinski
Rémi Martin ... Erkel
Serge Spira ... Fedka
Wladimir Yordanoff ... Lebjadkin
Zbigniew Zamachowski ... Liamchine
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Possessed
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Runtime:
116 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color
Certification:
Australia:M | West Germany:16
Company:
Gaumont more

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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
An excellent franco polish production, prophetic., 5 October 2003
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Author: sayettat from Wellington

Dostoievski was a giant and a master painter of the Russian soul. This film is a good rendition of his work, altogether prophetic (on the Bolcheviks) and coined with pessimism.

The Slavic twist that Wajda brought to the picture is essential. Madness, brittle human relations and utopia are the key ingredients among which a pleiad of very Russian characters evolve. None of them seem to be part of the real world, they seem more rooted in the realm of philosophy.

Reading Dostoievski and Tolstoi could have avoided many ugly things indeed.

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