The Journey of the Fifth Horse

Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.

• Earl DawsonDirector
• Ronald RibmanWriter
• Larry ArrickDirector

• Dustin HoffmanZoditch
• William BassettRubin / Narvinsky
• Charlotte RaeTerentievna
• Susan AnspachMiss Gruboy / Elizaveta
• Nicholas SaundersCast
• Michael TolanNikolai Alexeyvich Chulkaturin
• Lee WallaceCast