Subject for a Short Story
(1969)

Released: 1969-10-06

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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...

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Yevgeni Lebedev

as Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov

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Aleksandra Panova

as Yevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova

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Rolan Bykov

as Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov

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Iya Savvina

as Mariya Pavlovna Chekhova

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Nikolay Grinko

as Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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Marina Vlady

as Lika Mizinova

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Yuriy Yakovlev

as Ignatiy Potapenko

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Leonid Gallis

as Gilyarovskiy

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Yekaterina Vasilyeva

as artist Ovchinnikova

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Sergei Kulagin

as merchant Gribov

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Yevgeni Shutov

as father Gerasim

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Boris Travkin

Visual Effects Camera

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Naum Ardashnikov

Director of Photography

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Arnold Weisfeld

Production Design

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Rodion Shchedrin

Original Music Composer

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Roman Veseler

Camera Operator

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Grigoriy Shpakler

Assistant Camera

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Marina Patenovskaya

Assistant Costume Designer

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Yu. Konkin

Set Decoration

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