A movie version of an essay by N. Leskov of the same title about a rich merchant’s wife, beauty Katerina Izmaylova, her unlimited love and passion to shop-assistant Sergey that lead her to crime - murder of her husband and little nephew Fedya. Condemned to penal servitude Katya and Sergey walk through a long way to hard labor place. When the heroine finds out about the lover’s bad faith, she jumps into an ice-cold river and carries to the river-bed the woman who parted them.
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