"A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator."
Andrei Popov
as Chehov
Anatoliy Papanov
as Startsev
Nonna Terentyeva
as Katya
Lidiya Shtykan
as Vera Iosifovna
Igor Gorbachyov
as Turkin
Aleksey Batalov
as Shergov
Aleksandr Borisov
as Puzyrev
Grigoriy Shpigel
as lawyer Losev
Yevgeni Shutov
as Panteleimon
Olga Aroseva
as Maria Chekhova
Leonid Bykov
as Carter
Vladimir Volchik
as Drunken
Olga Gobzeva
as Teacher
Liliya Gurova
as Anisya
Rina Zelyonaya
as Authoress
Ivan Krasko
as Author
Pantelejmon Krymov
as Andryusha
Vera Lipstok
as Wife of a sick man
Gitana Leontenko
as Street acrobat
Lyubov Malinovskaya
as Anfisa
Nina Mamayeva
as Puzyrev's wife
Yuri Medvedev
as Doctor Sveshnikov
N. Melnikov
as
Aleksandr Orlov
as Street musician
Valentina Pugachova
as Nurse
Iya Savvina
as Lady with a dog
Nikolai Sergeyev
as Sick man
Aleksei Smirnov
as Gentleman with pineapple
Lev Stepanov
as Man in a case
Roman Tkachuk
as Volsky
Oleg Khromenkov
Georgiy Yumatov
as Mikhail Makarovich
Stepan Krylov
as Sinyukhin (uncredited)
Mariya Vinogradova
as Jealous man's wife (uncredited)
Anatoli Stolbov
as Player (uncredited)
Yuri Rychkov
as Arkasha Losev (uncredited)
Vladimir Kochurikhin
as Kirill Kondratyevich, geography teacher
Iosif Kheifits
Director
Nadezhda Simonyan
Original Music Composer
Genrikh Marandzhyan
Director of Photography
Stera Gorakova
Editor
Berta Manevich
Production Design
Isaak Kaplan
Leonid Rakhmanov
Script Editor
Liliya Moshkina
Costume Design
R. Tarakanova
Set Decoration
Anatoliy Kudryavtsev
Assistant Camera
S. Filanovskiy
Yuriy Smirnov
Assistant Production Design
Viktoriya Mogilyanskaya
Tamara Guseva
Assistant Editor
Konstantin Lashkov
Sound Recordist
Vasiliy Ulyanov
Key Makeup Artist
Lydumila Krivitskaya
Assistant Director
I. Mochalova
Yevgeni Tatarsky
Anton Chekhov
Novel
Mikhail Gendenshteyn
Executive Producer
V. Perov
Second Unit Director
Semyon Ivanov
Camera Operator
Screenplay