Subject for a Short Story

Subject for a Short Story

1969 · 82 min · ★ 5.9 · Drama, Romance, History

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...

Directed by Sergei Yutkevich · Written by Leonid Malyugin

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Mykola Hrynko Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Marina Vlady Lika Mizinova
Yevgeni Lebedev Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov
Aleksandra Panova Yevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova
Iya Savvina Mariya Pavlovna Chekhova
Rolan Bykov Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov
Yuriy Yakovlev Ignatiy Potapenko
Leonid Gallis Gilyarovskiy
Yekaterina Vasilyeva artist Ovchinnikova
Vladimir Osenev Kurbatov
Sergey Kulagin merchant Gribov
Yevgeni Shutov father Gerasim

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