Two Lives (film, 1961)

The beginning of the 1960s. A Soviet cruise ship enters the French port. Three men go ashore and go to a small restaurant. One of them, Semyon Vostrikov, an elderly man, tells his young companions the story of his participation in the revolutionary events of 1917.

The period between the two revolutions for Vostrikov is inextricably linked with his relationship with the family of Counts Nashchekins, into whose circle he was a young soldier then without a clan without a tribe by chance. Recklessly falling in love with the beautiful, but heartlessly cold Irina Naschekina, he finds himself in the center of a small conspiracy organized by Irina’s brother, arrogant officer Sergei, to laugh at the “ sansculot ”, who believed in equality in the wake of changes in the country.

The conflict generated by the evil rally and ridicule was aggravated by the fact that Nashchekin and Vostrikov found themselves on opposite sides of the barricades and in the political confrontation of supporters of the bourgeoisie, to which Nashchekin joined, and fighters for the cause of the workers and peasants, Bolsheviks, whose ideals are shared by Vostrikov.

Many fatal accidents, major and minor events will lead to the end of the internal confrontation between Vostrikov and Nashchekin, which coincided with the day of the storming of the Winter Palace in October 1917.

... Telling his story, the aged Semyon is too immersed in memories to understand that the elderly waiter serving his table, who seemed vaguely familiar, is still the same Sergey Nashchekin. Once arrogant and rich, once in exile, Nashchekin is now forced to serve a man whom he once humiliated, burning with fear that he might recognize him ... And he drops the dishes when he heard that his love became Semyon's wife. And when Semyon and his companions left, Sergey saw on their table a silver cigarette - case “forgotten” by Semyon — with which he once threw a “boor” in his face, who dared to fall in love with his sister.

At the very beginning of the film, Semyon Vostrikov participated in the events of the February Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd. He, an excellent shooter, kills the colonel, the commander of the unit in which he serves, when he gives the order to open fire on the rebels. In the final of the film, we see that Simon Vostrikov is dressed in a breeches with red general's stripes (exactly the same as in the tsarist army), he is a lieutenant general of the Soviet army.

• Nikolay Rybnikov - Semyon Vostrikov
• Vyacheslav Tikhonov - Sergey Nashchekin
• Elena Gogoleva - Nashchekina
• Ella Nechaeva - Nyusha
• Margarita Volodina - Irina Aleksandrovna Obolenskaya (Nashchekina)
• Alla Larionova - Nina
• Evgeny Shutov - Ivan Vostrikov
• Leo Polyakov - Nikolay Ignatiev
• Vladimir Kolchin - Nicholas II
• Stanislav Chekan - Petrenko
• Vladimir Druzhnikov - Kirill Borozdin
• Lev Sverdlin - Professor Borozdin
• Leonid Kuravlev - Mitya
• Sergey Gurzo - Filka
• Vasily Livanov - interlocutor
• Leo Krugly - interviewee - journalist
• George Yumatov - “Count”
• Muse of Krepkogorsk - Frosya
• Evgeny Morgunov - Krasavin
• Nikolay Khryashchikov - police chief (not in the credits)
• Vladimir Gusev - a shoemaker (not in the credits)
• Galina Kravchenko - Vyrubova (not in the credits)
• Claudia Kozlenkov - seamstress (not in the credits)
• Zinaida Sorochinskaya - seamstress ^[1]
• Tamara Yarenko - nurse ^[2]
• Rosa Sverdlova - city ​​dweller ^[3]
• Lyudmila Semenova - city ​​dweller
• Mikhail Vasiliev - soldier (not in the credits)
• Konstantin Bartashevich - Konstantin Mikhailovich, Adjutant Polovtseva (not in the credits)
• Gennady Bolotov - episode

• Script writer: Alexey Kapler
• Director: Lukov, Leonid Davidovich
• Operator: Mikhail Kirillov
• Artist: Pyotr Pashkevich

• "Two Lives" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"