Actors "Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano". Reviews and reviews of the movie

The film "Unfinished play for the mechanicalpianos "was released in 1977. It was demonstrated at a variety of film festivals and won five awards. It was noted not only the direction, but also some actors. "Unfinished play for a mechanical piano": what is this movie about and who played the main roles in it?

The creators of the painting

The director of the picture was Nikita Mikhalkov -winner of the Oscar for the film "Burnt by the Sun", which was filmed a little later. Also, Mikhalkov was nominated for an Oscar for his film work entitled "Urga - the territory of love" and "Twelve".

Mikhalkov prefers to write scripts to his ownfilms on their own. And this time, with the support of Alexander Adabashyan (a well-known Soviet actor and director), Nikita Sergeyevich creatively revised Anton Chekhov's stories "In the Manor", "Bezotsovshchina" and many others, creating on their basis a single story.

On the main roles were invited enoughfamous Soviet actors: "Unfinished piece for a mechanical piano" was included in the filmography of Alexander Kalyagin, Elena Solovey, Yuri Bogatyrev, Oleg Tabakov and others.

Behind the camera stood Pavel Lebeshev, who also worked on the paintings "Call, open the door", "Slave of Love" and "Belorussky Railway Station."

Short story

In the film "Unfinished play for the mechanicalpianos ", the actors play characters who, on a wonderful summer night, gathered at a dacha by a certain general Anna Petrovna Voinitsova. It would seem that people should not meet each other's acquaintances, but it soon becomes clear that many of them had relations in the past.

In particular, the screens are spicyThe situation when the village teacher Platnov suddenly finds out in his wife the stepson of the general's wife his first love. Having seen Sophia, Michel Platonov loses his head and tries to explain to her all evening. And he manages to do it so well that Sophia suggests that he abandon his faithful and escape together.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Platonov suddenly realizes thatHe has no time for such adventures. In despair, he rushes from the cliff into the bubbling, as it seemed to him, water. Yes, it turns out that the water to his knees, and suicide failed. And this story ends.

Actors involved in the film. "Unfinished play for a mechanical piano": a character of Platonov and his singer Kalyagin

Chekhov's characters are not easy to play. Therefore Mikhalkov was invited to the proven actors.

"An unfinished piece for a mechanical piano"this is not the first case of cooperation between Alexander Kalyagin and Nikita Mikhalkov. Nikita Sergeyevich already filmed Kalyagin in his directorial debut, "My own among strangers, a stranger among his own." A year after filming in this picture, Alexander Alexandrovich became famous throughout the Union for the role of Babs Baberley in the film "Hello, I'm Your Aunt." Then the artist received a notable role in the next Mikhalkov film "The Slave of Love" and, finally, the main role in "The Unfinished Play ..."

The hero of Alexander Kalyagin in his youth was differentquickness, ingenuity. He dreamed of a great future. He was passionately in love with Sophia. But all this remains in the past: now he is just an unpromising rural teacher. Meeting with Sophia awakens in him the former courage and nostalgia for former times. And yet it turns out that the teacher Michel Platonov has long lost his inclination to adventures: even in the company of his beloved Sophia, he is not ready to risk and abandon his former life for the sake of an uncertain future.

"Unfinished piece for a mechanical piano": actors and roles. Elena Solovey in the role of Sophia Voinitsova

Elena Solovey, like Alexander Kalyagin, isone of the most beloved performers Mikhalkov. In the 76th actress agreed to take part in his project "Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano".

Actors Alexander Kalyagin and his partner onfilming site Elena Solovey in the tape "Unfinished play ..." is played by elderly people who used to love each other. But then their ways parted: Michelle married Sasha, and Sophia became the bride of Sergei Voynitsev - the stepson of Anna Petrovna's general. When a woman gives her consent to visit the villa Voynizyova, she does not even suspect what kind of meeting there is waiting for her and how it all ends.

Elena Solovei also starred in such films as "Vanyushin's Children", "Mad Money" and "The Blonde is around the corner". Since 1991, the actress is in exile in the United States.

Other performers of roles

The film "Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano" gathered in the frame of many talented actors.

For example, Yuri Bogatyrev got the image of Serge Wojnicev - husband of Sophia. The actor is also known for his roles in the paintings "A Quiet Day at the End of the War", "Don Cesar de Bazan" and "His Own Among Strangers ...".

Nikita Mikhalkov in the film chose himself the role of doctorNikolay Triletsky. Antonina Shuranova, known for the films "War and Peace" and "The Star of Captivating Happiness", played the owner of the dacha - General Anna Petrovna.

Evgenia Glushenko ("The Life of Klim Samgin")got the role of Sashenka - the legitimate wife of Michel Platonov. And the famous Oleg Tabakov played a neighbor-creditor Shcherbuk. Also in the frame appeared Nikolai Pastukhov ("The Taming of the Shrew"), Pavel Kadochnikov ("The Blonde is around the corner"), Anatoly Romashin ("Anna Pavlova") and Natalia Nazarova ("Sibiriada").

Reviews and reviews

Five awards at film festivals in Chicago,Cartagena, San Sebastian, Belgrade and Rome received the painting "An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano". Critics' comments about it, of course, are positive. In the world it has long ago been difficult to speak ill of Chekhov's creations, and it was on the basis of his stories that a script for the film was created.

The IMDb website has a rating of eight pointsof the possible ten, which is quite a high indicator. Ordinary viewers also respond about Mikhalkov's work mostly positively: the beautiful cast of actors pleases the eye, and the problems of pre-revolutionary Russia are relevant, as it turned out, in the modern world. The meaninglessness and worthlessness of one's own life can be realized by any person. And what further to do with this "knowledge" - everyone decides for himself: change his destiny or continue to burn the priceless time. Unfortunately, Kalyagin's hero chooses the latter.