Subject for a Short Story

Overview

The film tells about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. October 17, 1896. On the facade of the Alexandrinsky Theater — a poster about the premiere of "The Seagull". A few hours are left before the performance. Chekhov and his sister Masha are expecting Lika Mizinova from Moscow station to arrive from Moscow. Chekhov is alarmed by the upcoming premiere, excited by the meeting with love, which never took place. Memories of acquaintance with Lika, of the experiences caused by the rude scolding of newspaper men who predicted the young writer the inglorious "death under the fence", about the unexpected decision for everyone to go to Sakhalin...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 6, 1969

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm,Telcia Films

Cast

Mykola Hrynko,Marina Vlady,Yevgeni Lebedev,Aleksandra Panova,Iya Savvina,Rolan Bykov,Yuriy Yakovlev,Leonid Gallis,Yekaterina Vasilyeva,Vladimir Osenevand 5 more

Director

Sergei Yutkevich

Writer

Leonid Malyugin,Yelena Skidanenko

Producer

Lev Kushelevich

Cinematography

Naum Ardashnikov

Music

Rodion Shchedrin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0065057