The Journey of the Fifth Horse

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.

Cast

Dustin Hoffman Zoditch William Bassett Rubin / Narvinsky Charlotte Rae Terentievna Susan Anspach Miss Gruboy / Elizaveta Nicholas Saunders Michael Tolan Nikolai Alexeyvich Chulkaturin Lee Wallace

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