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 |
Cinematography | Pavel Lebeshev |
Edited by | Lyudmila Yelyan |
Music by | Eduard Artemyev |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Russian: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино, romanized: 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,[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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Critical response
[edit]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]
The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this movie as one of his 100 favorite films.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Обзор и критика фильма The New York Times
- ^ "Александр Калягин о работе с Никитой Михалковым в фильме «Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино»". Archived from the original on 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
- ^ "An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)". Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^ Thomas-Mason, Lee. "From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time". Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
External links
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- 1977 films
- 1977 drama films
- 1970s Russian-language films
- Films about social class
- Films based on works by Anton Chekhov
- Films set in Russia
- Films set in the 1900s
- Films set in country houses
- Films set in the Russian Empire
- Films shot in Moscow Oblast
- Films directed by Nikita Mikhalkov
- Films scored by Eduard Artemyev
- Soviet drama films
- Russian-language drama films
- Mosfilm films
- 1970s Soviet films
- 1970s Soviet film stubs