An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1976)

The plot takes place in a country estate. A young widow of a general lives there together with her stepson and his wife Sophia. One day, guests gather at the estate. It turns out that Sophia is the first love of one of them, a man named Platonov. He confesses to her his re-emerged feelings. But, he is not ready for the fact that Sophia promises to leave her husband for him…

The movie is based on the play ‘Platonov’, although its plot has been significantly altered. Also, screenwriters Alexander Adabashian and Nikita Mikhalkov used fragments of several other stories by Chekhov. Despite this, the movie also won many awards at international film festivals, from Belgrade to Chicago, with critics especially noting the performance of actor Alexander Kalyagin, who played Platonov.