Dear friends!

The Russian House Cinema Club in Brussels presents a series of screenings dedicated to the 165th anniversary of Anton Chekhov’s birth.

“An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano”

Starring: Alexander Kalyagin, Elena Solovey
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
1976 * 103 min.
English subtitles.

Based on the works of A.P. Chekhov. A summer at a noble estate. Guests gather at the house of Anna Petrovna, an eccentric general’s widow. It is here, after many years, that Mikhail Platonov and Sofia meet again. In his youth, the intelligent and talented Platonov showed great promise. Now, at 35, he is a schoolteacher in a provincial gymnasium, an ambitious failure. Sofia has become a respectable, sophisticated married woman…