Обрыв (1984): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 1984, Обрыв is a drama film directed by Vladimir Vengerov, running about 136 minutes.

What it’s about. Boris Pavlovich Raisky, a bored Petersburg aesthet, comes to his family estate in a small town on the Volga. He hoped to find boredom and the faint-hearted provincials there, and did not expect that in the outback he was waiting for real life, dramatic love and serious passions. Boris Raisky’s estate is a blessed corner where everything pleases the eye: a native old house, tender greenery of birches and lindens, a silver strip of the Volga in the distance. And only a mysterious precipice at the end of the garden frightens the inhabitants of the estate. According to legend, at the bottom of it in ancient times, a jealous husband killed his wife and rival. “Precipice” is a symbolic word in the fate of the main character Vera. It fell to her to fall in love with a nihilist and a cynic who preaches "love for a term", painfully choose between feeling and duty, finally, go down to her beloved person in a cliff, cut off everything that connected with her former life...

Who’s in it. Обрыв stars Georgiy Antonov as Raisky, Elena Finogeeva as Vera, Nikolay Kochegarov as Mark Volokhov and Rimma Markova as Tatyana Markovna Berezhkova, among others.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Обрыв page.

If you liked it. Fans of Обрыв tend to enjoy Die Verurteilten, Der Pate, Schindlers Liste and Der Pate - Teil II.