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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 881

An Hour with Chekhov

192965 minSoviet Union

Synopsis

Three stories reveal people adjusting their behavior to rank and authority. A young wife's social success separates her from her struggling family; a clerk cannot stop apologizing for a small accident; and an official's judgment changes with the status of the person involved. Together, the episodes turn deference and ambition into sources of both comedy and humiliation.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs: 70:05
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · «Межрабпомфильм» · Public domain

Cast

Mikhail Tarkhanov

Mariya Strelkova

Andrey Petrovsky

N. Shcherbakov

Viktor Stanitsyn

Ivan Moskvin

DirectorsYakov Protazanov Mikhail Doller

Inspirations

The anthology adapts Chekhov's Anna on the Neck, The Death of a Government Clerk and The Chameleon. It was made for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, with the selected stories linked by their attention to social hierarchy.

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Ivan Moskvin — Unknown author Unknown author; Original publication : Газета «Социалистическая Якутия» №9 (4266) от 11 января 1938 года Immediate source : Государственный каталог Музейного фонда Российской Федерации · Public domain

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