"Colonel Chabert" is a television movie shot in 1978 by Leningrad television on the novel by the same name Honore de Balzac .
| Colonel Chaber | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Irina Sorokina |
| Author script | Irina Sorokina |
| In the main cast | Vladislav Strzhelchik Oleg Basilashvili Nikolai Boyarsky Mikhail Boyarsky Ivan Mokeev Natalya Tenyakova |
| Operator | Mikhail Filippov |
| Film company | Leningrad television |
| Duration | 92 minutes 32 sec |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Year | 1978 |
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Content
Summary
The action takes place in Paris in 1818 , during the reign of Louis XVIII . Colonel Chabert is a prominent and respected French officer who fought for Napoleon in the Russian-Prussian-French war . He is seriously wounded at the Battle of Preisis Eilau , he is considered dead for a long time, but he regains his strength and returns to his native Paris a few years later. The colonel discovers that all his property was inherited by the “widow,” who, some time after the erroneous news of his death, again married a titled and wealthy man. Shaber tries to return to his former life, meets his wife, but she does not want to know anything about her husband who has returned, since she does not want to lose her current position.
Chaber comes to lawyer Dervil and tells him about everything that happened. Derville offers the old colonel his help, but he, out of noble motives, refuses to accept it. The colonel is left with nothing.
Cast
- Vladislav Strzhelchik - Colonel Chaber
- Oleg Basilashvili - lawyer Dervil
- Natalya Tenyakova - Countess Ferro
- Valery Kuzin - Delbek, Manager of the Countess
- Ivan Mokeev - Bukar, Senior Writer
- Mikhail Boyarsky - Godeshal, clerk
- Leo Lemke - Crotta, Notary
- Nikolai Boyarsky - Verno, the Milkman
- Victor Gvozditsky - Gure, scribe
- Evgeny Baranov - Simonen, the delivery man
- Maria Prizvan-Sokolova - Servant of Dervil
Camera crew
- Script writer and director: Irina Sorokina
- Director of photography: Mikhail Filippov
- Artist: Alexander Evgrafov
- The music in the television movie used works of L. Beethoven .
See also
- Colonel Chaber (1994 film)