A biopic based on the life of Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinsky (1811–1848). The production of the film was completed in 1951, but it was not released until 1953, following the reshooting of various scenes demanded by Stalin.
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The people behind it
Sergei Kurilov
Belinsky
Aleksandr Borisov
Gertsen
Vladimir Chestnokov
Nekrasov
Georgiy Vitsin
Gogol
Nikolai Afanasyev
Lermontov
Igor Litovkin
Turgenev
Nina Mamayeva
Belinskaya
Yuri Lyubimov
Frolov
Vladimir Belokurov
Barsukov
Konstantin Skorobogatov
Krestyanin
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