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Story of an Unknown Actor

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Story of an Unknown Actor
Directed byAleksandr Zarkhi
Written byAleksandr Zarkhi
Vladimir Valutsky
StarringYevgeny Yevstigneyev
Alla Demidova
CinematographyPyotr Shumsky
Music byAlfred Schnittke
Production
company
Release date
  • 3 October 1977 (1977-10-03) (Soviet Union)
Running time
83 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Story of an Unknown Actor (Russian: Повесть о неизвестном актёре, romanizedPovest 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.

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