Thunderstorm

The cinematic adaptation of The Storm play by Aleksandr Ostrovsky In a provincial town on the Volga River the young and sensitive Katerina marries Tikhon a violent drunkard and thus enters the crude milieu of greedy salesmen the dark kingdom Her motherinlaw Kabanikha rules the family with an iron fist and endlessly harasses Katerina One day when Tikhon is away she meets Boris a man who embodies everything Katerina is longing for