Made after I. S. Turgenev’s novel of the same name. A rich landowner Lavretsky returns to Russia from Paris, having divorced his faithless wife Varvara, with an aim to start agriculture business. Here he meets not very rich girl Liza. Lavretsky and Liza fall in love, but the girl’s mother wants to marry her to a rich influential official, and it is difficult for Lavretsky to obtain a divorce from his wife. The girl goes to a monastery, and her lover stays alone in his estate.
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