An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano | |
Director: | Nikita Mikhalkov |
Screenplay: | Aleksandr Adabashyan Nikita Mikhalkov |
Story: | Anton Chekhov |
Based On: | Platonov by Anton Chekhov Various short stories by Anton Chekhov |
Starring: | Aleksandr Kalyagin Elena Solovey Yevgeniya Glushenko |
Music: | Eduard Artemyev |
Cinematography: | Pavel Lebeshev |
Editing: | Lyudmila Yelyan |
Studio: | Mosfilm |
Runtime: | 103 minutes |
Country: | Soviet Union |
Language: | Russian |
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Russian: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино|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.
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]
The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this movie as one of his 100 favorite films.[4]