A Hero of Our Time

The story of a man who lives with mind and passion, searches for truth and himself, challenges fate and society, but, burning everything in his path, finds himself alone with emptiness – with the same questions that concern us today.

Young Russian officer Grigory Pechorin, exiled from St. Petersburg to the Caucasus, is immersed in a whirlpool of events. He is good-looking, prone to adventures, and capable of winning the heart of any girl. However, despite his bravery, education, and exceptional intelligence, he cannot rid himself of the suffocating feeling of the boredom of existence that characterizes his generation of men who have suddenly lost faith in the ideals of their time.