Subject for a Short Story
06/10/1969
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...
Movie Information
Yevgeni Lebedev
as Pavel Yegorovich Chekhov
Aleksandra Panova
as Yevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova
Rolan Bykov
as Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov
Iya Savvina
as Mariya Pavlovna Chekhova
Mykola Hrynko
as Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Marina Vlady
as Lika Mizinova
Yuriy Yakovlev
as Ignatiy Potapenko
Leonid Gallis
as Gilyarovskiy
Vladimir Osenev
as Kurbatov
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
as artist Ovchinnikova
Sergey Kulagin
as merchant Gribov
Yevgeni Shutov
as father Gerasim
Viktor Avdyushko
as peasant
Georgi Tusuzov
as prompter
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
as Zhurkin
