Subject for a Short Story

Subject for a Short Story (Russian: Сюжет для небольшого рассказа, romanized: Syuzhet dlya nebolshogo rasskaza) is a 1969 Soviet-French biographical drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich.^[1][2][3]

Subject for a Short Story
Russian: Сюжет для небольшого рассказа
Directed by	Sergei Yutkevich
Written by	Leonid Malyugin
Starring	Nikolai Grinko Marina Vlady Iya Savvina Rolan Bykov Aleksandra Panova Yevgeny Lebedev
Cinematography	Naum Ardashnikov
Edited by	Klavdiya Aleyeva
Music by	Rodion Shchedrin
Release date	1969 (1969)
Countries	Soviet Union France
Language	Russian

Plot

The film tells about the life of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the process of creating the play The Seagull, the production on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, and his relationship with Lika Mizinova.^[4]

Cast

• Nikolai Grinko as Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Marina Vlady as Lika Mizinova
• Iya Savvina as Mariya Pavlovna Chekhova
• Rolan Bykov as Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov
• Aleksandra Panova as Yevgeniya Yakovlevna Chekhova
• Yevgeny Lebedev
• Yury Yakovlev as Potapenko
• Leonid Gallis as Gilyarovskiy
• Vladimir Osenev as Kurbatov
• Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Ovchinnikova^[5]