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Subject for a Short Story

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...

1969 |1h 22m |  Drama

Cast

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Yevgeni Lebedev

Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov

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Aleksandra Panova

Yevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova

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Rolan Bykov

Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov

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Iya Savvina

Mariya Pavlovna Chekhova

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Nikolay Grinko

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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Marina Vlady

Lika Mizinova

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Yuriy Yakovlev

Ignatiy Potapenko

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Leonid Gallis

Gilyarovskiy

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Vladimir Osenev

Kurbatov

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Yekaterina Vasilyeva

artist Ovchinnikova

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Sergei Kulagin

merchant Gribov

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Yevgeni Shutov

father Gerasim

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Viktor Avdyushko

peasant

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Georgi Tusuzov

prompter

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Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Zhurkin

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Status

Released

Language

Russian

Budget

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