The Old World Landowners

The old couple, Afanasy Ivanovich Tovstogub and his wife Pulcheria Ivanovna, live in seclusion in one of the remote villages known as "starosvitsky" in Little Russia. Their life is so peaceful that to a guest who happens to visit their low, green-roofed manor house, the passions and turmoil of the outside world seem to have no existence. The small rooms of the house are filled with all sorts of trinkets, the doors are singing in different keys, and the storerooms are filled with supplies, which are constantly being prepared by the servants under the supervision of Pulcheria Ivanovna. Despite the fact that the household is being robbed by the steward and the servants, the blessed land produces so much that Afanasy Ivanovich and Pulcheria Ivanovna do not notice the thefts at all.

Lyudmila Zhukova

Pulcheria Ivanovna

Nikolay Trofimov

Afanasy Ivanovich

Leonid Dyachkov

narrator

Elena Vanovskaya

Era Ziganshina

Maya Tupikova

Aleksandr Anisimov

Sergey Muchenikov

• David KarasikDirector
• Nikolai GogolNovel

Release date

January 1, 1979

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 13m

Genres

TV Movie