An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
	French film poster
Directed by	Nikita Mikhalkov
Screenplay by	Aleksandr Adabashyan; Nikita Mikhalkov
Story by	Anton Chekhov
Based on	Platonov ; by Anton Chekhov ; Various short stories ; by Anton Chekhov
Starring	Aleksandr Kalyagin; Elena Solovey; Yevgeniya Glushenko
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Cinematography	Pavel Lebeshev
Edited by	Lyudmila Yelyan
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	September 5, 1977;
Running time	103 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Russian: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино, romanized: Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, who also co-stars. It is based on Anton Chekhov's Platonov,[1] as well as several of his other short stories. It was filmed at Pushchino-Na-Oke (Artsebashev Estate), Pushchino, Russia, which was dilapidated in the film and is now abandoned.

Plot

Some members of the gentry gather at a house in rural Russia in the early twentieth century. As the day progresses, relationships develop, and the question arises of where these new relationships will lead.

Cast

Aleksandr Kalyagin: Mikhail Vassilyevich Platonov[2]
Elena Solovey: Sophia Yegorovna
Yevgeniya Glushenko: Sashenka
Antonina Shuranova: Anna Petrovna Voinitseva
Yuri Bogatyryov: Sergey Pavlovich Voinitsev
Oleg Tabakov: Pavel Petrovich Shcherbuk
Nikolai Pastukhov: Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolyev
Pavel Kadochnikov: Ivan Ivanovich Triletsky
Nikita Mikhalkov: Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky
Anatoli Romashin: Gerasim Kuzmich Petrin
Natalya Nazarova: Verochka
Kseniya Minina: Lizochka
Sergey Nikonenko: Yakov
Sergei Guryev: Petechka (as Seryozha Guryev)

Reception

Critical response

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano has an approval rating of 86% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 7 reviews, and an average rating of 8.00/10.[3]

References

External links

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano at IMDb

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[1] Обзор и критика фильма The New York Times

[2] Александр Калягин о работе с Никитой Михалковым в фильме «Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино»

[3] ttps://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/an_unfinished_piece_for_mechanical_piano

Anton Chekhov (works)
Plays	Platonov (1881) On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (1886, 1902) Swansong (1887) Ivanov (1887) The Bear (1888) A Tragedian in Spite of Himself (1889) The Wedding (1889) Tatiana Repina (1889) The Wood Demon (1889) A Marriage Proposal (1890) The Festivities (1891) The Seagull (1896) Uncle Vanya (1897) Three Sisters (1901) The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Novel	The Shooting Party (1884)
Novellas	The Steppe (1888) A Dreary Story (1889) The Duel (1891) Ward No. 6 (1892) The Story of an Unknown Man (1893) Three Years (1895) My Life (1896) Peasants (1897) In the Ravine (1900)
Short stories	"An Enigmatic Nature" (1883) "The Death of a Government Clerk" (1883) "Fat and Thin" (1883) "The Complaints Book" (1884) "Surgery" (1884) "The Chameleon (1884) "Oysters" (1884) "A Living Chronology" (1885) "Small Fry" (1885) "The Fish" (1885) "A Horsey Name" (1885) "The Huntsman" (1885) "A Malefactor" (1885) "Sergeant Prishibeyev" (1885) "Children" (1886) "Misery" (1886) "The Requiem" (1886) "Anyuta" (1886) "Ivan Matveyich" (1886) "The Witch" (1886) "Agafya" (1886) "Grisha" (1886) "Easter Eve" (1886) "A Gentleman Friend" (1886) "The Privy Councillor" (1886) "The Chorus Girl" (1886) "A Misfortune" (1886) "Mire" (1886) "Vanka" (1886) "Shrove Tuesday" (1886) "Home" (1887) "Happiness" (1887) "First Aid" (1887) "The Runaway" (1887) "The Siren" (1887) "The Cattle-Dealers" (1887) "Boys" (1887) "Kashtanka" (1887) "A Story Without a Title" (1888) "Sleepy" (1888) "A Nervous Breakdown" (1889) "The Bet" (1889) "Gusev" (1890) "Peasant Wives" (1891) "The Grasshopper" (1892) "In Exile" (1892) "The Black Monk" (1894) "Rothschild's Violin" (1894) "The Student" (1894) "The Teacher of Literature" (1894) "Anna on the Neck" (1895) "Whitebrow" (1895) "Ariadne" (1895) "The House with the Mezzanine" (1895) "The Petcheneg" (1897) "At Home" (1897) "In the Cart" (1897) "The Man in the Case" (1898) "Gooseberries" (1898) "About Love" (1898) "Ionych" (1898) "A Doctor's Visit" (1898) "On Official Duty" (1899) "The Darling" (1899) "The Lady with the Dog" (1899) "The Bishop" (1902) "Betrothed" (1903)
Related	Olga Knipper (wife) Maria Chekhova (sister) Mikhail Chekhov (brother) Osip Dymov (character) Birth house and museum Chekov Shop, home and museum Melikhovo, home and museum White Dacha, home and museum Chekhov Gymnasium and museum Chekhov Library Chekhov Monument in Taganrog Chekhov's gun Show, don't tell Fragments Wild Honey
Category

Golden Shell
1953–1975	I Was a Parish Priest (1953) Sierra maldita (1954) Days of Love (1955) The Railroad Man (1956) Oh! Sabella (1957) Ewa chce spac (1958) The Nun's Story (1959) Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960) One-Eyed Jacks (1961) Arturo's Island (1962) Mafioso (1963) America America (1964) Golden Queen / Mirage (1965) I Was Happy Here (1966) Two for the Road (1967) The Long Day's Dying (1968) The Rain People (1969) Dead of Summer (1970) Claire's Knee (1971) The Glass House (1972) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Badlands (1974) Furtivos (1975)
1976–2000	Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven (1976) An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977) Alambrista! (1978) Autumn Marathon (1979) The Orchestra Conductor (1980) Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981) Demons in the Garden (1982) Entre Nous (1983) Rumble Fish (1984) Yesterday (1985) Half of Heaven (1986) Wedding in Galilee (1987) On the Black Hill (1988) Homer and Eddie / La nación clandestina (1989) Letters from Alou (1990) Butterfly Wings (1991) A Place in the World (1992) The Beginning and the End / Sara (1993) Dias contados (1994) Margaret's Museum (1995) Bwana / Trojan Eddie (1996) The Swindle (1997) Wind with the Gone (1998) What's Life? (1999) The Ruination of Men (2000)
2001–present	A Cab for Three (2001) Mondays in the Sun (2002) Gun-shy (2003) Turtles Can Fly (2004) Something Like Happiness (2005) Half Moon / Mon fils à moi (2006) A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) Pandora's Box (2008) City of Life and Death (2009) Neds (2010) Los pasos dobles (2011) In the House (2012) Bad Hair (2013) Magical Girl (2014) Sparrows (2015) I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016) The Disaster Artist (2017) Between Two Waters (2018) Pacified (2019) Beginning (2020)