Alexander Kaliagin and Eugenia Glushenko starred in the 1977 film "Unfinished Piece of Player Piano," based on the Anton Chekhov play "Platonov."
Screenplay credits for Anton Chekhov
MFA series hails films made from his stories, plays
Alexander Kaliagin and Eugenia Glushenko starred in the 1977 film "Unfinished Piece of Player Piano," based on the Anton Chekhov play "Platonov."
The age of cinema was just dawning when Anton Chekhov died in 1904. Author of hundreds of piquant stories and novellas, along with such impressionistic, twilit plays as “Uncle Vanya’’ and “The Cherry Orchard,’’ Chekhov chronicled the angst of the Russian middle class, the “lost generation’’ that would disappear after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. (Full article: 1203 words)
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