Film

Temptation of B.

1990 · 1h 24m · Drama · Science Fiction

IMDb

6.8

The story of a writer who accidentally stumbles across the elixir of immortality and in doing so encounters the small group of immortals who have jealously guarded this secret for centuries. Once the writer has knowledge of this elixir, called 'Mafussalin', the group of five immortals give him a stark choice: either join them, with the price of admission, being a duel to the death between the immortal who accidentally gave the secret away or death at the hands of the group. As the writer makes up his mind, sometimes aided and at other times opposed by the ever shifting alliances from within the group, we discover how the other immortals became this way, their true ages and what they have done with this 'gift'.

Lembit Ulfsak

Феликс Александрович Снегирёв, писатель

Natalya Gundareva

Наталья Петровна, она же Маркиза

Oleg Borisov

Иван Давыдович Мартынюк, он же Магистр

Vladimir Zeldin

Павел Павлович, он же Князь

Stanislav Sadalskiy

Константин Курдюков, он же Басаврюк

Aleksandr Pashutin

Ротмистр

Anna Ovsyannikova

работница жилконторы

Valentin Bryleev

Сергей Сергеевич, сосед Снегирёва

Alexander Kotov

врач скорой помощи

Anatoli Golik

Анатолий Сократович Романюк

• Arkadiy SirenkoDirector
• Semyon PozdnyakovDirector
• Arkadiy StrugatskiyWriter
• Boris StrugatskiyWriter
• Evgeniy GuslinskiyDirector of Photography
• Edison DenisovOriginal Music Composer

Release date

October 5, 1990

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 24m

Genres

Drama, Science Fiction