Otets Sergiy 1978

A film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. The main character of the film is Prince Stepan Kasatsky, an officer, an ardent, proud young man — a big fan of the tsar. Kasatsky is going to marry, but at the last moment he learns from the bride that she was the mistress of the emperor. The prince is deeply disappointed in social life, he takes a monastic vow and leaves the capital. Faith in God was to save the soul, but passions and worldly temptations don't leave Kasatsky.

Cast:

Sergey Bondarchuk
Stepan Kasatsky / Father Sergius 

Valentina Titova
Mary Korotkova 

Vladislav Strzhelchik
Nicholas I 

Nikolai Gritsenko
general 

Boris Ivanov
hegumen 

Ivan Lapikov
old man on the ferry