Pomeshchitsa bolshogo, no rasstroennogo imeniya Meropiya Murzavetskaya zhazhdet nayti vygodnuyu brachnuyu partiyu dlya svoego bezalabernogo, no lyubimogo plemyannika Apollona.
Dlya etogo ona zatevaet khitrospletennuyu aferu s podlozhnymi vekselyami s odnoy tolko tselyu - zastrashchat dolgami, a potom vydat za Apollona moloduyu sosedku Evlamiiyu, vdovu i naslednitsu bogatogo pomeshchika.
No v plany raschetlivoy pomeshchitsy vmeshivayutsya nezhelatelnye uchastniki sobytiy: bednaya, no shustraya rodstvennitsa Murzavetskoy Glafira i peterburgskiy kapitalist Berkutov.
Film snyat po pese N.A. Ostrovskogo "Volki i ovtsy".
Dlya etogo ona zatevaet khitrospletennuyu aferu s podlozhnymi vekselyami s odnoy tolko tselyu - zastrashchat dolgami, a potom vydat za Apollona moloduyu sosedku Evlamiiyu, vdovu i naslednitsu bogatogo pomeshchika.
No v plany raschetlivoy pomeshchitsy vmeshivayutsya nezhelatelnye uchastniki sobytiy: bednaya, no shustraya rodstvennitsa Murzavetskoy Glafira i peterburgskiy kapitalist Berkutov.
Film snyat po pese N.A. Ostrovskogo "Volki i ovtsy".
