The Duel
movie

Released December 20, 1973
Overview
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...
Cast

Oleg Dal
as
Layevski

Vladimir Vysotsky
as
Von Koren

Lyudmila Maksakova
as
Nadezhda Fyodorovna

Yuri Medvedev
as
Sheshkovsky

Anatoliy Papanov
as
Dr. Samoylenko

Georgiy Korolchuk
as
Pobedov

Anatoliy Azo
as
Kirilin
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Ashot Melikjanyan
as
Achmianov

Lyubov Malinovskaya
as
Marya Bityugova

Andrei Apsolon
as
Bityugov

Ángel Gutiérrez
as
Achmianov Sr.

Igor Efimov
as
Boyko
Crew

Iosif Kheifits
as
Director

Anton Chekhov
as
Novel

Nadezhda Simonyan
as
Original Music Composer

Iosif Kheifits
as
Writer

Genrikh Marandzhyan
as
Director of Photography

Isaak Kaplan
as
Production Design

Yevgeni Tatarsky
as
Second Unit Director
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Igor Vigdorchik
as
Sound Director
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S. Ivanov
as
Camera Operator
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Anatoliy Kudryavtsev
as
Camera Operator
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Liliya Moshkina
as
Costume Design
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Nikolai Elenbogen
as
Makeup & Hair