Subject for a Short Story (1969)
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...
Subject for a Short StoryDrama, Romance, History
Cast
- 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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