An Uneventful Story | |
Director: | Wojciech Jerzy Has |
Starring: | Gustaw Holoubek Hanna Mikuc Anna Milewska |
Music: | Jerzy Maksymiuk |
Cinematography: | Grzegorz Kedzierski |
Editing: | Barbara Lewandowska-Conio |
Distributor: | Zespol Filmowy "Rondo" |
Runtime: | 106 minutes |
Country: | Poland |
Language: | Polish |
An Uneventful Story (Polish: Nieciekawa historia) is a 1983 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Gustaw Holoubek. The film is an adaptation of a short story by Anton Chekhov and tells the story of a professor of medicine who begins an affair with a young pupil.
Michal (Gustaw Holoubek) is a middle aged professor of medicine in a provincial town who is bored by the mundane and superficial nature of his life, friends and family. Katarzyna (Hanna Mikuc), a young woman returns to the town and the two have an affair.[1]
Has first submitted a script for An Uneventful Story to the communist authorities as the follow-up project to The Saragossa Manuscript, when it was rejected he made The Codes (Szyfry) instead.[2] The film was the director's first after a hiatus of 10 years, after Has had a number of projects blocked by the communist authorities because he had taken The Hour-Glass Sanatorium to the Cannes Film Festival against their wishes.[3] It was filmed in the city of Tarnów in the Polish province of Małopolskie.[4]
The film was released on 12 September 1983.