In the mid-1870s, landowner Varvara Stavrogina and Professor Stepan Verkhovensky are the center of society. Stavrogina's son Nikolai and Verkhovensky's son Pyotr are staying in Geneva. There, Nikolai becomes engaged to the lovely Lisa Tushina. However, he is already to be married to another.

• Maria Wimmer
• Christoph Bantzer
• Hannes Messemer
• Volker Lechtenbrink
• Anita Lochner
• Klaus Schwarzkopf
• Lutz Mackensy
• Willi Kowalj