Overview

Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square with his dead-end job and miserable apartment. When he's assigned to read the diary of a nobleman, he finds bitter parallels between his own pathetic existence and the wasted life described in the journal. Michael Tolan and Charlotte Rae co-star.

Top Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Zoditch

William Bassett

Rubin / Narvinsky

Charlotte Rae

Terentievna

Susan Anspach

Miss Gruboy / Elizaveta

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Nicholas Saunders

Michael Tolan

Nikolai Alexeyvich Chulkaturin

Lee Wallace