About the early years of the life of the philosopher and writer Alexander Herzen, about his first and unrequited love, about the throwing of youth and growing up of a young critic and revolutioner. According to his father, he comes from an ancient Russian family, and his mother was a simple German woman. As an illegitimate son, he was not given the name of his father, Yakovlev. In his youth, he was fond of the ideas of freedom, for which it is not a pity to fight, which even then was close to the ideals of the revolution...
Андрей Мягков
as Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Родион Нахапетов
as Ogaryov
Ольга Гобзева
as Natasha
Boris Kumaritov
as Granovskiy
Никита Подгорный
as Ketcher
Nikolay Dubinskiy
as Shchepkin
Алексей Чернов
as official
Евгений Евстигнеев
as Ivan Alekseyevich Yakovlev
Галина Григорьева
as Luiza Ivanovna
Евгения Хованская
as countess Khovanskaya
Андрей Файт
as footman
Алексей Добронравов
as prince