There were three sisters — Vera, Nadezhda and Lyubov. Vera, having survived unhappy love, goes to the monastery, where she gives birth to a child. The child dies, Vera commits suicide. Lyuba and grandmother attend church and maintain relations with priest Aleksandr. To Nadezhda that condemns their religiosity, it seems that Lyuba is in love with father Aleksandr. She comes home to him and demands that he stop dating Lyuba. However, it turns out that Aleksandr is in love with Nadezhda. Knowing him better, she reciprocates him, facing a difficult choice, Aleksandr breaks with religion.
Cast
Georgi Zhzhyonov
Karyakin
Eduard Martsevich
Aleksandr
Galina Polskikh
Nadezhda
Elena Safonova
Lyuba
Semyon Morozov
Grekov
Konstantin Sorokin
Fyodor Illarionovich
Antonina Pavlycheva
grandmother
Maya Bulgakova
Vera
Sergey Yakovlev
college director
Yevgeni Shutov
Klimentiy
Anatoly Vedyonkin
factory worker
Vera Altayskaya
Dariya
Vera Burlakova
Alevtina
Valentina Berezutskaya
Nadezhda's friend
Inna Vykhodtseva
Yekaterina Antonovna
Nina Dobrikova
Vera
Larisa Danilina
neighbor
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
Nadezhda's friend
Aleksandr Lebedev
podyachy
Vladimir Pitsek
veteran
Manefa Sobolevskaya
parishioner
Anatoliy Solovyov
Ivan Afanasyevich
Svetlana Stepanova
Aleksandr's wife
Marianna Strizhenova
organizer of the poetry evening
Aleksandra Kharitonova
neighbor
Vyacheslav Gostinsky
philosopher (uncredited)
Evgeniy Zosimov
guest (uncredited)
Ivan Turchenkov
churchman (uncredited)
Anatoli Golik
guest (uncredited)
Crew
Aida Manasarova
Director
Roza Budantseva
Writer
Nikolai Yershov
Writer, Novel
Nina Skuybina
Script Editor
Yelena Klimenko
Editor
Leonid Kraynenkov
Director of Photography
A. Ovchinnikov
First Assistant Director
N. Khazemova
Second Assistant Director
A. Kuznetsov
Assistant Director
G. Abramov
Producer
Natalya Meshkova
Production Design
Sergey Shemakhov
Camera Operator
Yu. Baglayev
Assistant Camera
L. Shteyn
Assistant Camera
Vera Romanova
Costume Design
Tamara Panteleyeva
Makeup Artist
Sergei Minervin
Sound Director
S. Zyablikov
VFX Artist
V. Yevstigneyev
VFX Director of Photography
Nikolai Sidelnikov
Original Music Composer
Minna Blank
Music Editor
V. Garadzha
Script Consultant
Mark Ermler
Conductor