An Uneventful Story

An Uneventful Story
Directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has
Written by Wojciech Jerzy Has
Based on Скучная история (A Dreary Story)  
by Anton Chekhov
Starring Gustaw Holoubek
Hanna Mikuc
Anna Milewska
Music by Jerzy Maksymiuk
Cinematography Grzegorz Kedzierski
Edited by Barbara Lewandowska-Conio
Distributed by Zespol Filmowy "Rondo"
Release dates
  • 12 September 1983 (1983-09-12)
Running time
106 minutes
Country Poland
Language Polish

An Uneventful Story (Polish: Nieciekawa historia) is a 1986 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Gustaw Holoubek. The film is an adaptation of a short story by Anton Chekhov and tells the story of a professor of medicine who begins an affair with a young pupil.

Plot

Michal (Gustaw Holoubek) is a middle aged professor of medicine in a provincial town who is bored by the mundane and superficial nature of his life, friends and family. Katarzyna (Hanna Mikuc), a young woman returns to the town and the two have an affair.[1]

Cast

Production

Has first submitted a script for An Uneventful Story to the communist authorities as the follow up project to The Saragossa Manuscript, when it was rejected he made The Codes (Szyfry) instead.[2] The film was the director's first after a hiatus of 10 years, after Has had a number of projects blocked by the communist authorities because he had taken The Hour-Glass Sanatorium to the Cannes Film Festival against their wishes.[3] It was filmed in the city of Tarnów in the Polish province of Małopolskie.[4]

Release

The film was released on 12 September 1983.

See also

References

  1. Cinefiles - An Uneventful Story University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. mip.berkeley.edu
  2. Guerin-Castell, Anne Literature and translation Jan Potocki and The Manuscript Found in Saragossa novel and film in Shaffer, Elinor (ed.) Comparative Criticism: An Annual Journal, Volume 24, Cambridge University Press, 2002 p.190
  3. Hodge, Nick (7 August, 2010) Wojciech Has and the Interpretation of Dreams krakowpost.com
  4. Nieciekawa historia filmpolski.pl

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