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Man from the Restaurant

192762 minSoviet Union
Drama

Synopsis

A widowed waiter, grieving the loss of his son in the war, takes in a young lodger. The new tenant and the waiter's daughter fall in love, offering the household a possible future after its losses. A wealthy restaurant customer becomes interested in the young woman, bringing the power imbalance of her father's workplace into their private lives.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
69:11
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

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Wikimedia Commons · Yakov Protazanov · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsYakov Protazanov

Inspirations

Protazanov bases the drama on a story by Ivan Shmelyov. The central role was intended for Ivan Moskvin, whose illness led to Mikhail Chekhov taking the part.

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  • Michael Chekhov — Scanned and processed by Mariluna; book (источники: Смирнов-Несвицкий Ю. А. Евгений Вахтангов. - Л.:Искусство, 1987. ББК 85.443(2)7 С22) · Public domain
  • Vera Malinovskaya — Unknown author Unknown author; http://www.famousfix.com/tag/vera-malinovskaya · CC BY-SA 4.0

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