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Subject for a Short Story
Subject for a Short Story

Subject for a Short Story

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Drama

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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...

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Runtime

82 mins

Rating

5.4/10

Release Date

06 October 1969

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Yevgeni Lebedev

Yevgeni Lebedev

Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov

Aleksandra Panova

Aleksandra Panova

Yevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova

Rolan Bykov

Rolan Bykov

Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov

Iya Savvina

Iya Savvina

Mariya Pavlovna Chekhova

Nikolay Grinko

Nikolay Grinko

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Marina Vlady

Marina Vlady

Lika Mizinova

Yuriy Yakovlev

Yuriy Yakovlev

Ignatiy Potapenko

Leonid Gallis

Leonid Gallis

Gilyarovskiy

Vladimir Osenev

Vladimir Osenev

Kurbatov

Yekaterina Vasilyeva

Yekaterina Vasilyeva

artist Ovchinnikova

Sergey Kulagin

Sergey Kulagin

merchant Gribov

Yevgeni Shutov

Yevgeni Shutov

father Gerasim

Viktor Avdyushko

Viktor Avdyushko

peasant

Georgi Tusuzov

Georgi Tusuzov

prompter

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Zhurkin

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