Story of an Unknown Actor

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Story of an Unknown Actor

Directed by	Aleksandr Zarkhi
Written by	Aleksandr Zarkhi Vladimir Valutsky
Starring	Yevgeny Yevstigneyev Alla Demidova
Cinematography	Pyotr Shumsky
Music by	Alfred Schnittke
Production company	Mosfilm^[1]
Release date	3 October 1977 (1977-10-03) (Soviet Union)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Story of an Unknown Actor (Russian: Повесть о неизвестном актёре, romanized: Povest o neizvestnom aktyore) is a Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi in 1977.^[2]

Plot

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev, middle-aged actor. For many years, he played in the provincial theater on lead roles. The director of the piece based on the play, written for Goryaev, takes a young actor for his role. Goryaev first falls into despair, leaves the theater, makes an appeal to his friends. After a while, he digests what happened and realizes it's time to leave the scene adequately.

Cast

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as Pavel Goryaev^[3]
Alla Demidova as Olga Svetilnikova
Igor Kvasha as Viktor Vereshchagin
Angelina Stepanova as Maria Goryaeva
Igor Starygin as Vadim
Vladislav Strzhelchik as Mikhail Tverskoy
Valentin Gaft as director Znamensky
Mikhail Kononov as Petya Strizhov
Nikolay Trofimov as Pyotr Fomich
Pavel Vinnik as Ferapontov
Irina Murzaeva as old actress
Nikolay Smorchkov as actor
Valentina Telegina as episode

References

^ Story of an Unknown Actor on Mosfilm
^ Story of an Unknown Actor at the KinoPoisk
^ Story of an Unknown Actor at the kino-teatr.ru

External links

Story of an Unknown Actor at IMDb

Films by Aleksandr Zarkhi

Wind in the Face (1930)
My Motherland (1933)
Red Army Days (1935)
Baltic Deputy (1936)
Member of the Government (1939)
His Name Is Sukhe-Bator (1942)
The Last Hill (1944)
In the Name of Life (1946)
The Precious Seed (1948)
The Lights of Baku (1950)
The Height (1957)
People on the Bridge (1960)
My Younger Brother (1962)
Anna Karenina (1967)
Story of an Unknown Actor (1976)
Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (1981)

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List of compositions
Stage works	Historia von D. Johann Fausten Life with an Idiot
Orchestral music	Symphony No. 0 Symphony No. 1 Symphony No. 2 (St. Florian) Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 4 Symphony No. 5 (Concerto Grosso No. 4) Symphony No. 6 Symphony No. 7 Symphony No. 8 Symphony No. 9 In Memoriam...
Concertante	Concerto Grosso No. 1 Concerto Grosso No. 3 Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra Viola Concerto Violin Concerto No. 4
Chamber music	Piano Quintet
Vocal music	Nagasaki
Collaborations	Requiem of Reconciliation
Film scores	Introduction to Life (1963) Adventures of a Dentist (1965) Commissar (1967) The Glass Harmonica (1968) Sport, Sport, Sport (1970) Belorussian Station (1971) You and Me (1971) The Seagull (1972) Autumn (1974) Agony (1975) How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (1976) The Ascent (1977) Story of an Unknown Actor (1977) Father Sergius (1978) Little Tragedies (1979) Air Crew (1980) Farewell (1983) The Story of Voyages (1983) Dead Souls (1984) A Step (1988) Presence (1992) The Master and Margarita (1994)
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