The Ugly Story

Pralinsky is a high ranking official. He lives in Petersburg. One night he is left without his carriage. He has to walk. On the way he passes a house. There is a wedding inside. The groom is Pseldonimov, one of his subordinates. Pralinsky decides to go in. His intention looks generous. He will mix with ordinary people. What happens is something else. He disgraces himself and the wedding along with him. The story comes from a tale by Dostoyevsky. The tale is a piece of satire. The film was not released after it was made. It sat on the shelf for twenty years. Evgeniy Evstigneev appears in the hundred and two minute film, a Soviet production Aleksandr Alov and Vladimir Naumov finished in 1966.