Grigory Pechorin, a dashing Byronic figure, arrives in Pyatigorsk and gets entangled in a web of romantic ploys and deceptions. Based on "Princess Mary", the longest novella in Mikhail Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time".

• Central Television USSR
• Oleg Dal
• Andrey Mironov
• Leonid Bronevoy
• Olga Yakovleva
• Irina Pechernikova
• Matvey Neyman
• Vsevolod Platov
• Igor Kashintsev