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.
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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 |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
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.
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]
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Non-fiction | Sakhalin Island (1893–1895) |
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