Film version of the life of the poet Mikhail Lermontov from its first days to the last moment.

Pechorin is deprived of the officer’s rank and gets transferred to one of the mountain villages of the Caucasus. He gets bored of the everyday life and starts looking for fun. He promises Azamat to help him steal Kazbich’s horse if the former allows Pechorin to marry his sister Bela. Soon Pechorin gets annoyed by Bela’s presence. Kazbich, insulted by the theft of his horse kills Bela. Coldblooded Pechorin is hardly moved by this news.

The boring daily life of the high society of Pyatigorsk in the XIX century is revived by the arrival of Pechorin from St. Petersburg. Pechorin’s love affair with Mary becomes the subject of controversy.

War and love in Caucasus.

A talented but poor minstrel is forced to wander throughout the world because of impossibility to be with his true love - a rich merchant's daughter.

Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?

After the death of Bela, Pechorin was unwell for a long time, and then left the fortress and Maxim Maximych and left for Georgia. Since then, the headquarters captain had no news of his friend, often recalled and carefully carried his diaries in his wanderings. Five years have passed... Once at a post station near Vladikavkaz, Maxim Maximych with delight learns that Grigory Pechorin also came here. The long-awaited meeting brings an unbearable pain and bitterness of disappointment to the old warrior. In his hearts, he mercilessly parted with the travel notes of the ensign. And his random companion finds on the yellowed pages the story of the soul of an amazing, extraordinary person who brings misfortune to others all his life.

Экранизация одноименной главы романа М. Ю. Лермонтова «Герой нашего времени». Печорин, узнав об увлечении своего приятеля Грушницкого княжной Мери Лиговской, от скуки и желания досадить насквозь фальшивому юнкеру, влюбляет в себя девушку. Фильм рассказывает о романтической истории Печорина, чья безрассудная любовная игра оборачивается трагедией и для него самого — человека, явно не вписывающегося в законы времени, в котором приговорила его жить судьба…

Biographical film about the 19th century Russian writer, poet and sometimes painter Mikhail Lermontov.

Taken from a Lermontov play, Sergei Gerasimov's Maskarad (1941) begins when beautiful Nina (Makarova) loses a bracelet during a masked ball. Another woman finds it and without revealing whose bracelet it belongs to, she gives it to an ardent Calvary officer admirer at the ball. This leads to deeper and deeper incisions upon the urbane social body of Tsarist Russia. A drama of pride, marital distrust, gambling, infidelity and humiliation twirls around the decaying corpse of a perverted social class.