Story of an Unknown Man () is a 1980 Russian drama film written and directed by Vytautas Žalakevičius. It was entered into the main competition at the 37th Venice International Film Festival.
Plot
Cast Yevgeniya Simonova as Zinaida Fyodorovna Alexander Kaidanovsky as Stepan Georgy Taratorkin as Orlov Zhorzh Lyudmila Zaytseva as Polina Pavel Kadochnikov as Graf Orlov Sergey Muchenikov as Kukushkin Boris Romanov as Gruzhin Ion Ungureanu as Pekarskiy Gleb Plaksin
Production The film is an adaptation of the Anton Chekhov's novella The Story of an Unknown Man.
Release The film entered the main competition at the 37th edition of the Venice Film Festival.
Reception A contemporary Variety review called the film as "bit skimpy in narrative format but [...] lovingly though academically made."Mosk. "Rasskaz O Neisvestnom Celoveke - Story of an Unknown Man". Variety Film Reviews, Vol. 15. Bowker. p. 590. . Continental Film Review'''s Peter Cargin noted "the director uses the interiors of the house very well, not 'opening out' the film artificially but moving his players naturally in the settings". Giovanni Grazzini from Corriere della Sera'' described it as "a film of classical realism, with beautiful melancholic nuances, steeped in melancholy, and guided step by step toward the evocation of a distant world that is no less painful than today's."
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