The Doctor's Pupil

Overview

An enterprising young man who practices medicine, striving to win the affection of his beloved, vows to cure her mother of a serious illness. To truly learn the secrets of medicine, he has to pretend to be deaf and mute and hire himself out as an assistant to the best doctor. Will the hero be able to keep his promise?

Directed by Boris Rytsarev

Top cast

Oleg Kazancheev

Radomir - physician's apprentice

Oleg Golubitsky

Vazili - king's physician

Natalya Vavilova

Todorka - dancer girl

Ariadna Shengelaia

Maria - Todorka's mother

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Costa - king's educator

Grigori Manoukov

King

Viktor Ilichyov

Grozdan - foolish youth

Yuri Chekulayev

Kavas

Liliya Gritsenko

lady - patient's mother

Ion Marinescu

Svetlana Orlova

state-lady

Aleksandr Anyutenkov

Vassili Bezdushnõi

V

V. Zhivov

Valery Lysenkov

executioner

Aleksandr Sayko

sick - cured Vazili

Béla Tarr

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