An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

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
Cinematography	Pavel Lebeshev
Edited by	Lyudmila Yelyan
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Critical response[edit]

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]

The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this movie as one of his 100 favorite films.^[4]

References[edit]

^ Обзор и критика фильма The New York Times
^ "Александр Калягин о работе с Никитой Михалковым в фильме «Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино»". Archived from the original on 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
^ "An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)". Rotten Tomatoes.
^ Thomas-Mason, Lee. "From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time". Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

External links[edit]

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»". Archived from the original on 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2018-07-19.

[3] "An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)". Rotten Tomatoes.

[farout-4] Thomas-Mason, Lee. "From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time". Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

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