Nikita MIKHALKOV
Никита МИХАЛКОВ
Nikita MIKHALKOV
USSR, 1977, 103mn 
Colour, fiction
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
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Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино

 

 Partition inachevée pour piano mécanique

 Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheckovo pianino

 
Directed by : Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr ADABASHIAN (Александр АДАБАШЬЯН), Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ)
Based on A. P. Chekhov’s play «Platonov».
 
Cast
Yuri BOGATYRYOV (Юрий БОГАТЫРЕВ)
Yevgeniya GLUSHENKO (Евгения ГЛУШЕНКО) ...Sachenka Platonova
Pavel KADOCHNIKOV (Павел КАДОЧНИКОВ) ...Le père de Triletski
Aleksandr KALYAGIN (Александр КАЛЯГИН) ...Mikhaïl Platonov
Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ) ...Nikolaï Triletski
Natalya_3 NAZAROVA (Наталья_3 НАЗАРОВА)
Sergey NIKONENKO (Сергей НИКОНЕНКО)
Nikolay PASTUROV (Николай ПАСТУХОВ)
Anatoli ROMASHIN (Анатолий РОМАШИН) ...Guérassim Pétrine
Antonina SHURANOVA (Антонина ШУРАНОВА) ...Anna Petrovna Voïnitseva
Yelena SOLOVEY (Елена СОЛОВЕЙ) ...Sofia Voïnitseva
Oleg TABAKOV (Олег ТАБАКОВ) ...Pavel Chtcherbouk
 
Cinematography : Pavel LEBESHEV (Павел ЛЕБЕШЕВ)
Production design : Aleksandr ADABASHIAN (Александр АДАБАШЬЯН), Aleksandr SAMULEKIN (Александр САМУЛЕКИН)
Music : Eduard ARTEMIEV (Эдуард АРТЕМЬЕВ)
Sound : Valentin BOBROVSKY (Валентин БОБРОВСКИЙ)
Production : Mosfilm
Release date in Russia : 05/09/1977
 

Awards :
Conque d'or au Festival de San Sebastian, 1977
Premier prix au Festival de Chicago, 1978

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico
Editor : Potemkine. 2009. Titre : Coffret Nikita Mikhalkov - Vol 1.
Ce coffret contient 4 films :
- Le Nôtre parmi les autres
- Esclave de l'amour
- Partition inachevée pour piano mécanique
- Cinq soirées

Plot synopsis
A look at life of the Russian gentry in the late 19th Century. Adapted by Oscar winning director Nikita Mikhalkov from Anton Chekhov’s first play and some of his other works, school teacher Platonov has come with his wife to spend a summer weekend at a friend’s dacha. Among the other guests there, he meets his former lady-love Sophia, who is now married to another man. Platonov thought he had recovered from his affection for her, but quickly finds that this is not so.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
4 Nikita Mikhalkov films that have become world cinema classics, Valery Kuznetsov, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
Partition inachevée pour piano mécanique, critique de film, Elias FARES, dvdclassik.com, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Cinéma d'ailleurs, le cinéma russe au Lucernaire, Paris (France), 2021
- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2020
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2016
- , Pézenas (France), 2015
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2012
- Festival Ciné sans Frontières, Gujan Mestra (France), 2012
- Cinéma Russie Institut Lumière, Lyon (France), 2012
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
- Cinéma russe au Kursaal de Besançon, Besançon (France), 2011
- Les rencontres culturelles Russenko, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (France), 2011
- Semaine de cinéma russe à l'Institut français du Tchad, Ndjamena (Tchad), 2011
- International Film Festival "Love is Folly", Varna (Bulgaria), 2010
- Année croisée France-Russia, Different cities (France), 2010
- Retrospective Nikita Mikhalkov in Paris, Paris (France), 2010
- Damascus International Film Festival, Damascus (Syria), 2009
- Lecce European Film Festival, Lecce (Italy), 2008
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008
- Küstendorf International Film and Music Festival, Kustendorf (Serbia), 2008
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2007
- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2005
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2004
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2002
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1977

Photos and videos
 
Film avec sous-titres anglais