Subject for a Short Story

The story

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...

Cast

M Mykola HrynkoAnton Pavlovich Chekhov M Marina VladyLika Mizinova Y Yevgeni LebedevPavel Yegorovich Chekhov A Aleksandra PanovaYevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova I Iya SavvinaMariya Pavlovna Chekhova R Rolan BykovMikhail Pavlovich Chekhov Y Yuriy YakovlevIgnatiy Potapenko L Leonid GallisGilyarovskiy Y Yekaterina Vasilyevaartist Ovchinnikova V Vladimir OsenevKurbatov S Sergey Kulaginmerchant Gribov Y Yevgeni Shutovfather Gerasim

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V Viktor Avdyushkopeasant G Georgi Tusuzovprompter A Aleksandr KuznetsovZhurkin