An internationally acclaimed tale of love and loneliness which was the unknown life of Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin. A tangled and tragic love story involving Bunin himself, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and writer Leonid Gurov (Yevgeny Mironov), it is an award-winning work of great honesty and piercing psychology.

Yevgeny Mironov's recognition for the film:

• Best Supporting Actor Award, Baltic Pearl International Film Actor Festival, 2000
• Special Prize of The Gorky Literary Institute Scholarly Council and Terra Holdings at the National Literature and Film Festival, 2001