An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano
An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano ★★★½ 1977
A general's widow invites family and friends to a weekend house party in 1910 Russia. Romantic and familial entanglements begin to intrude in a lyrical adaptation of Chekov's play “Platonov.” In Russian with English subtitles. 100m/C VHS, DVD . RU Alexander Kalyagin, Elena Solovei, Antonina Shuranova, Oleg Tabakov, Yuri Bogatyrev, Nikita Mikhalkov; D: Nikita Mikhalkov.
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