
Overview
A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
Fun facts
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Music
Music by Aleksandr Belyayev
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Valeri Shuvalov
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Fyodor SologubNovel
- Georgi NikolayevWriter
- Original title
- Мелкий бес
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 15, 1995
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Russia

































