• Director: Karen Shakhnazarov, . Alexander Gornovsky Cast: Vladimir Ilyin, . Alex nimble, . Aleksandr Pankratov-Cherny, . Aleksei Zharkov, . Eugene Stychkin, . Viktor Solovyov, . Albina Evtushevsky, . Anna Sinyakin, . Stanislav Eventov scenario: Alexander Borodyansky, . Karen Shakhnazarov, . Anton Chekhov Producer: Karen Shakhnazarov, . Galina Shadura operator: Alexander Kuznetsov Composer: Eugene Kadimsky, .
Chief Physician of the Provincial Psychiatric Hospital Ragin discovers in one of his patients (Gromov) man with his own philosophy. In conversations with the mentally ill doctor sees the madness of the world and soon he loses sanity. But who has the right to decide where is the line beyond which begins madness? Screen adaptation of the famous stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Shot in the existing hospital for the mentally ill, . some of whom were in the movie bit parts (with cues).