
When a middle-aged high-court judge in 19th-century Russia starts to experience a sharp pain in his side, he soon finds himself bedridden with an undiagnosed terminal illness. Face-to-face with his own mortality, he becomes increasingly introspective and emotional as he ponders the reason for his acute suffering and imminent death.
Ivan Ilyich Golovin
Praskovya Fyodorovna Golovina
Dr. Mikhail Danilovich
Lisa Golovina

Narrator
Nanny
Priest
Pyotr Ivanovich