Subject for a Short Story
06/10/1969
1h 22m



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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...
Cast


Yevgeni Lebedev
Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov


Aleksandra Panova
Yevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova


Rolan Bykov
Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov


Iya Savvina
Mariya Pavlovna Chekhova


Mykola Hrynko
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov


Marina Vlady
Lika Mizinova


Yuriy Yakovlev
Ignatiy Potapenko


Leonid Gallis
Gilyarovskiy


Vladimir Osenev
Kurbatov


Yekaterina Vasilyeva
artist Ovchinnikova


Sergey Kulagin
merchant Gribov


Yevgeni Shutov
father Gerasim


Viktor Avdyushko
peasant


Georgi Tusuzov
prompter
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Zhurkin
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