A NEST OF GENTRY (drama, directed by Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, 1969)

"A NEST OF GENTRY" is a feature film by Andrei Konchalovsky based on the novel of the same name by I.S. Turgenev. The film depicts the life of the Russian nobility in the 1840s. The nobleman Lavretsky, disappointed with life and deceived by his wife who betrayed him, returns to his homeland after long wanderings in Europe. In his own estate, everything is dear and close to him. On his very first visit to his neighbors, Kalitin, he meets Liza—a woman so unlike those he knew before. It would seem a simple plot...