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Subject for a Short Story (1969)

Subject for a Short Story (1969)

Drama
Release Date: 1969, October 6
Directors: Sergei Yutkevich
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Telcia Films, Telcia Films, Telcia Films, Mosfilm, Mosfilm, Mosfilm
Cast: Mykola Hrynko, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Marina Vlady, Rolan Bykov, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Yuriy Yakovlev, Iya Savvina, Yevgeni Shutov, Yevgeni Lebedev, Georgi Tusuzov, Vladimir Osenev, Sergey Kulagin

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...

Keywords:

biography love triangle family relationships railway station birch forest