The Duel

6.0 (11 votes)• 1973• 98m•Released

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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...

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Languages: Russian

Director: Iosif Kheifits

Starring Cast: Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotsky, Lyudmila Maksakova, Yuri Medvedev, Anatoliy Papanov, Georgiy Korolchuk

Cast

Oleg Dal

Layevski

Vladimir Vysotsky

Von Koren

Lyudmila Maksakova

Nadezhda Fyodorovna

Yuri Medvedev

Sheshkovsky

Anatoliy Papanov

Dr. Samoylenko

Georgiy Korolchuk

Pobedov

Anatoliy Azo

Kirilin

Ashot Melikjanyan

Achmianov

Lyubov Malinovskaya

Marya Bityugova

Andrei Apsolon

Bityugov

Ángel Gutiérrez

Achmianov Sr.

Igor Efimov

Boyko

Pavel Kashlakov

German Lupekin

Ashot Nersisyan

Geliy Sysoev

Lyubov Tishchenko

Oleg Khromenkov

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