Nest of the Gentry

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Nikolai Dvigubsky Series Language: In Russian with English subtitles 1969 | USSR, Mosfilm | colour | 111 mins Director: Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, cast I.Kupchenko, L.Kulagin, B.Tyshkevich, T.Chernova and others Set design: N.Dvigubsky A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. The film portrays the life of Russian landed gentry in the 1840s. after a long travel in Europe, nobleman Lavretsky returns back home. Everything in his estate is so familiar and dear to his heart. On his first visit to his neighbours, the Kalitins, he meets Lisa. He forgets wife, left in Paris, forgets all his past. He desires only one thing — to always be with Lisa who is so unlike the women he used to know.