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In early 20th-century Russia, a general's widow named Anna (Antonina Shuranova) hosts a weekend gathering of friends and family at her country home. As the guests relax and debate social issues, a romantic affair starts to bloom. Mikhail (Aleksandr Kalyagin), a married schoolmaster, spots former lover Sophia (Yelena Solovey) among the guests, and the two promptly fall back in love. Now the lovers must choose between their current domesticity and a new life of passion.

Cast & Crew

Aleksandr Kalyagin
Mikhail Vassilyevich Platonov
Yelena Solovey
Sophia Yegorovna
Antonina Shuranova
Anna Petrovna Voinitseva
Yuri Bogartyrev
Sergey Pavlovich Voinitsev
Oleg Tabakov
Pavel Petrovich Shcherbuk
Yevgeniya Glushenko
Sashenka
Nikolay Pastukhov
Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolyev
Pavel Kadochnikov
Ivan Ivanovich Triletsky
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky
Anatoliy Romashin
Gerasim Kuzmich Petrin
Nikita Mikhalkov
Director
Aleksandr Adabashyan
Screenwriter
Nikita Mikhalkov
Screenwriter
Eduard Artemev
Original Music
Pavel Lebeshev
Cinematographer
Lyudmila Yelyan
Film Editor
Aleksandr Adabashyan
Production Design
Aleksandr Samulekin
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Critic Reviews for An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

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  • Nikita Mikhalkov's obliquely titled An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano is a magnificent film, a marvelous, transcendent and totally fulfilling viewing experience.

    April 27, 2018 | Full Review…

    Bruce McCabe

    Boston Globe

  • "An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano" is buoyed by a cast that is uniformly excellent...

    January 4, 2018 | Full Review…

    Paul Attanasio

    Washington Post

  • The film, only very loosely based on the early Chekhov play Platonov, is perhaps even closer to Chekhov than Chekhov was.

    June 30, 2011 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Janet Maslin

    New York Times

  • Mikhalkov's version of Chekhov's first play, Platonov, has a lyrical naturalism that Chekhov would have loved.

    April 4, 2011 | Full Review…
    Time Out

  • The relentlessly pretty cinematography suggests an urge for precious self-deception on Mikhalkov's part as strong as any of his characters'.

    April 4, 2011 | Full Review…

    Dave Kehr

    Chicago Reader

  • Decidedly, it is Chekhov who has inspired the timeliest film of the year.

    February 26, 2020 | Full Review…

    Molly Haskell

    Vogue
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