Subject for a Short Story
Сюжет для небольшого рассказа
Release: 1969-10-06
·Runtime: 82m
·★ 5.4
Drama
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...
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Telcia Films
Mosfilm
Cast
Mykola Hrynko
as Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Leonid Gallis
as Gilyarovskiy
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
as artist Ovchinnikova
Yevgeni Shutov
as father Gerasim
Georgi Tusuzov
as prompter
Aleksandra Panova
as Yevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova
Rolan Bykov
as Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov
Yuriy Yakovlev
as Ignatiy Potapenko
Viktor Avdyushko
as peasant
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
as Zhurkin
Iya Savvina
as Mariya Pavlovna Chekhova
Marina Vlady
as Lika Mizinova
Vladimir Osenev
as Kurbatov
Sergey Kulagin
as merchant Gribov
Yevgeni Lebedev
as Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov
