An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
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| Directed by | Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Screenplay by | Aleksandr Adabashyan Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Story by | Anton Chekhov |
| Based on | Platonov by Anton Chekhov Various short stories by Anton Chekhov |
| Starring | Aleksandr Kalyagin Elena Solovey Yevgeniya Glushenko |
| Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
| Cinematography | Pavel Lebeshev |
| Edited by | Lyudmila Yelyan |
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| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Russian: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, who also co-stars. It is based on Anton Chekhov's Platonov,[1] as well as several of his other short stories. It was filmed at Pushchino-Na-Oke (Artsebashev Estate), Pushchino, Russia, which was dilapidated in the film and is now abandoned.
Plot
Some members of the gentry gather at a house in rural Russia in the early twentieth century. As the day progresses, relationships develop, and the question arises of where these new relationships will lead.
Cast
- Aleksandr Kalyagin: Mikhail Vassilyevich Platonov[2]
- Elena Solovey: Sophia Yegorovna
- Yevgeniya Glushenko: Sashenka
- Antonina Shuranova: Anna Petrovna Voinitseva
- Yuri Bogatyryov: Sergey Pavlovich Voinitsev
- Oleg Tabakov: Pavel Petrovich Shcherbuk
- Nikolai Pastukhov: Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolyev
- Pavel Kadochnikov: Ivan Ivanovich Triletsky
- Nikita Mikhalkov: Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky
- Anatoli Romashin: Gerasim Kuzmich Petrin
- Natalya Nazarova: Verochka
- Kseniya Minina: Lizochka
- Sergey Nikonenko: Yakov
- Sergei Guryev: Petechka (as Seryozha Guryev)
Reception
Critical response
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano has an approval rating of 86% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 7 reviews, and an average rating of 8.00/10.[3]
References
- ↑ Обзор и критика фильма The New York Times
- ↑ Александр Калягин о работе с Никитой Михалковым в фильме «Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино»
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano at IMDb
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