An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

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
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.