The Life of Klim Samgin (TV series)
The Life of Klim Samgin is a 14-part 1988 Soviet TV series by director Viktor Titov, based on the eponymous novel (1927—1936) by Maxim Gorky. The series premiered on television in March–April 1988.
Plot
The film describes the life of the Russian intellectual Klim Samgin against the backdrop of grandiose panorama of 40 years of Russian life, from 1877 to 1917.Cast
- Andrey Rudensky as Klim Ivanovich Samgin
- Leonid Gorelik as Klim Samgin
- Yelena Solovey as Vera Petrovna, mother of Klim
- Ernst Romanov as Ivan Akimovich Samgin, father of Klim
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Timofei Stepanovich Varavka, stepfather of Klim
- Sergey Koltakov as Dr. Konstantin Makarov, friend of Klim
- Svetlana Kryuchkova as Lyubov Somova
- Mikhail Gluzsky as Yakov Akimovich Samgin, uncle of Klim
- Natalya Gundareva as Marina Petrovna Zotova
- Andrei Boltnev as gendarme Colonel Popov
- Larisa Guzeeva as Elizaveta Spivak
- Yevgeniya Glushenko as Maria Ivanovna Nikonova
- Alexander Kalyagin as Ivan Mitrofanov / Yakov Kotelnikov, an agent of the secret police
- Igor Vladimirov as Andrey Sergeyevich Prozorov
- Sergei Makovetsky as Dmitri Samghin, brother of Klim
- Andrey Kharitonov as Igor Turoboev
- Victor Kostetskiy as Georgy Gapon
- Valentin Gaft as Valery Trifonov, officer-drunk
- Vladimir Soshalsky as Valentin Bezbedov
- Vsevolod Shilovsky as Zahar Petrovich Berdnikov, businessman
- Aleksei Loktev as Grigory Popov
- Irina Rozanova as Tosya
- Lyubov Sokolova as Anfimovna
- Viktor Bychkov as beekeeper
- Irina Kupchenko as lady on reception at the lawyer
- Aleksandr Galibin as Diomidov; Nicholas II of Russia
- Andrejs Žagars as Kutuzov
Awards
- Honorary Diploma Manson special 4th episode of Province. 1886 at the International Film Festival in Monte Carlo.
- Professional Award Lenfilm studio in 1988 the artist Yuri Pugach.