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3 Reception  



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An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano






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An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano
French film poster
Directed byNikita Mikhalkov
Screenplay byAleksandr Adabashyan
Nikita Mikhalkov
Story byAnton Chekhov
Based onPlatonov
by Anton Chekhov
Various short stories
by Anton Chekhov
StarringAleksandr Kalyagin
Elena Solovey
Yevgeniya Glushenko
CinematographyPavel Lebeshev
Edited byLyudmila Yelyan
Music byEduard Artemyev

Production
company

Mosfilm

Release date

  • September 5, 1977 (1977-09-05)

Running time

103 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Russian: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино, romanizedNeokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, who also co-stars. It is based on Anton Chekhov's Platonov,[1] as well as several of his other short stories. It was filmed at Pushchino-Na-Oke (Artsebashev Estate), Pushchino, Russia, which was dilapidated in the film and is now abandoned.

Plot[edit]

Some members of the gentry gather at a house in rural Russia in the early twentieth century. As the day progresses, relationships develop, and the question arises of where these new relationships will lead.

Cast[edit]

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano has an approval rating of 86% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 7 reviews, and an average rating of 8.00/10.[3]

The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this movie as one of his 100 favorite films.[4]

References[edit]

  • ^ "Александр Калягин о работе с Никитой Михалковым в фильме «Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино»". Archived from the original on 2018-03-08. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  • ^ "An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  • ^ Thomas-Mason, Lee. "From Stanley Kubrick to Martin Scorsese: Akira Kurosawa once named his top 100 favourite films of all time". Far Out Magazine. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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