A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy.
The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.
Сергей Бондарчук
as Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius
Валентина Титова
as Mary Korotkova
Владислав Стржельчик
as Nicholas I
Николай Гриценко
as general
Борис Иванов
as hegumen
Иван Лапиков
as old man on the ferry
Иван Соловьев
as bishop Nikodim
Людмила Максакова
as Makovkina
Георгий Бурков
as merchant
Ольга Анохина
as merchant's daughter
Алла Демидова
as Pashenka
Dmitri Streltsov
as cadet Stepan Kasatsky
