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.
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- Dustin HoffmanZoditch
- William BassettRubin / Narvinsky
- Charlotte RaeTerentievna
- Susan AnspachMiss Gruboy / Elizaveta
- Nicholas Saunders
- Michael TolanNikolai Alexeyvich Chulkaturin
- Lee Wallace
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- Earl DawsonDirector
- Larry ArrickDirector
- Ronald RibmanWriter
- Jac VenzaProducer
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