The Duel

Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...

• Iosif KheifitsDirector
• Nadezhda SimonyanOriginal Music Composer
• Iosif KheifitsWriter

• Oleg DalLayevski
• Vladimir VysotskyVon Koren
• Lyudmila MaksakovaNadezhda Fyodorovna
• Yuri MedvedevSheshkovsky
• Anatoliy PapanovDr. Samoylenko
• Georgiy KorolchukPobedov
• Anatoliy AzoKirilin
• Ashot MelikjanyanAchmianov
• Lyubov MalinovskayaMarya Bityugova
• Andrei ApsolonBityugov
• Ángel GutiérrezAchmianov Sr.
• Igor EfimovBoyko