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An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

1977
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov · Russia / USSR · Contemporary European Art Cinema
DramaComedy

Cast

Alexander Kalyagin Elena Solovei Antonina Shuranova

Plot

At a country estate, a group of bored gentry hold a summer party and reveal their longings and failures. After Chekhov's Platonov.

Sinekatalog’s take

Nikita Mikhalkov's adaptation of Chekhov's Platonov gathers bored Russian gentry at a summer estate where longings and failures surface. Alexander Kalyagin is superb in a lush, bittersweet, beautifully acted film full of heat and ennui.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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