An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
French film poster
Directed by	Nikita Mikhalkov
Screenplay by	Aleksandr Adabashyan Nikita Mikhalkov
Story by	Anton Chekhov
Music by	Eduard Artemev
Cinematography	Pavel Lebeshev
Edited by	Lyudmila Yelyan
Production company	Mosfilm
Release dates	1977
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Russian: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино, translit. Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, who also co-stars. It is based on Anton Chekhov's Platonov.

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
Elena Solovey: Sophia Yegorovna
Evgeniya 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
Anatoliy Romashin: Gerasim Kuzmich Petrin
Natalya Nazarova: Verochka
Kseniya Minina: Lizochka
Sergey Nikonenko: Yakov
Sergei Guryev: Petechka (as Seryozha Guryev)

External links

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano at the Internet Movie Database

Works by Anton Chekhov

Plays	Platonov (1881) On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (1886, 1902) Swansong (1887) Ivanov (1887) The Bear (1888) A Tragedian in Spite of Himself (1889) The Wedding (1889) The Wood Demon (1889) A Marriage Proposal (1890) The Festivities (1891) The Seagull (1896) Uncle Vanya (1897) Three Sisters (1901) The Cherry Orchard (1904)

Novel	The Shooting Party (1884)

Novellas	The Steppe (1888) The Duel (1891) The Story of an Unknown Man (1893) Three Years (1895) My Life (1896)

Short stories	"The Bet" (1889) "Ward No. 6" (1892) "The Black Monk" (1894) "Rothschild's Violin" (1894) "The Darling" (1899) "The Lady with the Dog" (1899)

Related articles	Chekhov's gun Osip Dymov Fragments Wild Honey

Films directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

A Girl and Things (1967)
And I Go Home (1968)
A Quiet Day During the End of War (1970)
At Home Among Strangers (1974)
A Slave of Love (1976)
An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (1977)
Five Evenings (1978)
Oblomov (1980)
Family Relations (1981)
Without Witness (1983)
Dark Eyes (1987)
Hitch-hiking (1990)
Close to Eden (1992)
Remembering Chekhov (1993)
Anna: 6 - 18 (1993)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Russians Deprived of Russia (2003)
12 (2007)
Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel (2011)
Sunstroke (2014)

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