| Story of an Unknown Actor | |
| Director: | Aleksandr Zarkhi |
| Starring: | Yevgeny Yevstigneyev Alla Demidova |
| Music: | Alfred Schnittke |
| Cinematography: | Pyotr Shumsky |
| Production Companies: | Mosfilm[1] |
| Runtime: | 83 minutes |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
Story of an Unknown Actor (ru|Повесть о неизвестном актёре|Povest o neizvestnom aktyore) is a Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi in 1977.[2]
Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev, middle-aged actor. For many years, he played in the provincial theater on lead roles. The director of the piece based on the play, written for Goryaev, takes a young actor for his role. Goryaev first falls into despair, leaves the theater, makes an appeal to his friends. After a while, he digests what happened and realizes it's time to leave the scene adequately.