The Journey of the Fifth Horse (1966)
2h
Running Time
October 14, 1966Release Date
The Journey of the Fifth Horse (1966)
2h
Running Time
October 14, 1966Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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The Journey of the Fifth Horse is a 1966 television film directed by Larry Arrick and Earl Dawson.It is a dramatic American film based on the 1850 play Diario di un homme superfluous (Dnevnik Lishnego Cheloveka) by Ivan Turgenev.It is the first film in which Dustin Hoffman appeared, in the role of Zoditch, who won an Obie Award for his performance.