On knives (film)

After a political exile, the nihilist Joseph Wisleneu returns to a quiet provincial town, along with his friend Pavel Gordanov, who was summoned by the letter of his former beloved Glafira Bodrostina. Bodrostina, being married to a rich landowner, wants with the help of Gordanov to get rid of his elderly husband and get his money. Gordanov and Vislenev are confronted with those who personify the patriarchal way of life of the Russian province — the family of retired Major Forov, the family of General Syntyanin, the landowner Podozerov, who is in love with Sister Visleneva Larisa, the local priest-philosopher Father Evangel, there are no such patterns, and there is a white pattern, and there is no one too white, too, and there is no need for it, and there is no tactile pattern, one evangelical, one white and one white pattern, one evogelical, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white patterns, one white pattern, one white pattern, one white patterns, one no more than one white strokes, one evangelical temper, one tempo, one tempo, one tempo, one tempo, one tempo, one tempo, one tempo, one tempo, one tempo, one tempo, one time, one countess, one countess, one counters, one Р Р ° РР ° In the end, the implementation of Bodrostina’s plan to eliminate her husband leads to the destruction of this patriarchal world. However, along with him, physically and spiritually, both those for whom nihilism has become synonymous with criminal permissiveness towards the achievement of their own selfish ends are also dying.

The novel “On Knives” was published by N. S. Leskov in 1870–1871 and usually does not belong to the best works of the writer, which was recognized both by his contemporaries and N. S. Leskov himself. The main message of the novel was the harsh criticism of Russian nihilism, which, according to the author, condones criminal and immoral personalities.

The first film adaptation of the novel was carried out in 1915 by Alexander Panteleev .

• Elena Mayorova - Glafira Vasilievna Bodrostina
• Nikolai Dobrynin - Pavel Nikolaevich Gordanov, nihilist
• Sergey Vinogradov - Joseph (Joseph) Platonovich Vislenev, nihilist, Gordanov's friend
• Olga Drozdova - Larisa Platonovna Visleneva, sister of Josaph
• Irina Rozanova - Alexandra Ivanovna Sentyanina, general
• Sergey Taramaev - Andrei Ivanovich Podozerov, landowner
• Vladimir Ivanov - retired major Fileter Ivanovich Forov, Uncle Visleniov
• Alla Budnitskaya - Katerina Astafevna, wife of Major Forov, aunt Visleniov
• Stanislav Rostotsky - General Ivan Demyanovich Sinyanin, Alexandra's husband
• Elena Masyukova - Vera, daughter of General Sintyanin from her first marriage
• Alexander Feklistov - Father Evangel
• Igor Gorbachev - Mikhail Andreevich Bodrostin, landowner, Glafira's husband
• Evgeny Paramonov - Heinrich Ivanovich Ropshin, secretary Bodrostina
• Dmitry Nazarov - Svetozar Vladenovich Vodopyanov, landowner, "black master"
• Alexey Mironov - Sid (Sidor), the former serf Bodrostina
• Andrei Davydov - Baron Kuhlewane, Bodrostin's nephew
• Elena Kollegova - Good Child, Mother of the Father Evangel
• Valery Barinov - Porushkin / Voroshilov, police agent
• Anatoly Adoskin - "an important person", the head Perushkina
• Vladimir Protasenko - Derbak, a peasant
• Sergey Kachanov - Kartashov, police agent
• Mikhail Zhigalov - Sukhoi Martyn, a peasant
• Sergey Garmash - a monk
• Elena Matveyeva - Nastya, the maid of the Bodrostins
• Vyacheslav Vdovin - the butler
• Lyudmila Larionova - maid
• Margarita Borisova - maid
• Tatyana Nazarova - the maid
• Alexander Pyatkov - one of the peasants
• Fedor Valikov - one of the peasants

Voiceover

• Anna Guliarenko - Glafira Bodrostina (character Elena Mayorova , who tragically died before the film was released and did not have time to voice her role)

• 1999 - Special Diploma of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia at the festival of gaming television films “Mountain Echo” Olga Drozdova for the role of Larisa Vislenova

The film was one of the last in the film career of Elena Mayorova (died before the completion of the television series), Igor Gorbachev (died in 2003), Stanislav Rostotsky (died in 2001) and Alexei Mironov (died in 1999). In addition, this is the last full-length film, in which the episodic role was played by Vladimir Protasenko (the actor stopped filming since 2000) and the episode master Fyodor Valikov (died in 1999).

For the artist of the film, Pyotr Pashkevich , “With Knives” was also the last work - Peter Isidorovich passed away before the shooting was completed, in 1996.

In the series, as in many other films directed by Alexander Orlov , played his wife, actress Alla Budnitskaya .