During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.
Cast & crew
Yakov SegelDirector
Sergey ShakurovMukhin
Liliya AleshnikovaLida / Lidiya / Livia
Aleksandr PaleesAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Valeri KozinetsSpartacus / metro train driver
Nikolai RybnikovBenckendorff / Titus Valerius / inquisitor
Nikolai Sergeyevphysics teacher / Galileo Galilei
Ivan Ryzhovsenator / director / singing monk / storekeeper at St. Paul's Monastery
Yuri ChekulayevClaudius
