The Precipice (Обрыв) 40 years old

Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...

Credits

The Precipice Cast

Name Character
Oleg Shtefanko as Vikentyev
Stepan Krylov He was 73, 88 years old when he died as Yakov
Marina Yakovleva She was 24, now 65 years old as Marfinka
Nikolay Kochegarov He was 30, 49 years old when he died as Mark Volokhov
Tamara Timofeeva She was 79, 91 years old when she died as Vasilisa
Yelena Finogeyeva as Vera

The Precipice Crew

Name Department
Vladimir Vengerov as Director. He was 64 (76) years old when He died Directing
Vladimir Vengerov as Writer. He was 64 (76) years old when He died Writing
The Precipice poster
The Precipice (40 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, January 19, 1984
  • Runtime: 136 minutes