A Hero of Our Time

Hero of Our Time is a 1966 Soviet drama film directed by Stanislav Rostotsky. Plot The film is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Mikhail Lermontov. Cast Vladimir Ivashov as Pechorin (voiced by Vyacheslav Tikhonov) Aleksey Chernov as Maksim Maksimovich Silvia Berova as Bela Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Undine Aleksandr Orlov as Young Officer Nikolay Burlyaev as Blind man Sofiya Pilyavskaya as Old Woman Stanislav Khitrov as Pechorin's Servant Boris Savchenko as Yanko Critical response Film critic Mikhail Bleiman in Iskusstvo Kino observed: On the screen, there are simply illustrations for individual episodes of the novel, sometimes simplified, sometimes cinematically embellished. We did not see dramas of a strong character in an insignificant time.