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An Uneventful Story
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Wikipedia article
'An Uneventful Story' is a 1983 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.[http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cinefiles/DocDetail?docId=25685 Cinefiles - An Uneventful Story] University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. mip.berkeley.edu
Cast
* Marek Bargielowski as Michal
* Wladyslaw Dewoyno as Mikolaj
* Ewa Frackiewicz
* Janusz Gajos as Aleksander Gnekker
* Jacek Glowacki
* Gustaw Holoubek as Professor
* Jan Konieczny
* Janusz Michalowski as Piotr
* Hanna Mikuc as Katarzyna
* Anna Milewska as Weronika
* Wlodzimierz Musial
* Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak as Waiter
* Elwira Romanczuk as Liza
* Leszek Zentara as Student
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.Guerin-Castell, Anne [https://books.google.com/books?id=AaJC_TiUkWUC&pg=PA190 '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 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.Hodge, Nick (7 August 2010) [http://www.krakowpost.com/article/2265 'Wojciech Has and the Interpretation of Dreams'] krakowpost.com It was filmed in the city of Tarnw in the Polish province of Maopolskie.[http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=12371 'Nieciekawa historia'] filmpolski.pl
Release
The film was released on 12 September 1983.
See also
* 'The Diary of an Old Man', Canadian film based on the same source material
* Cinema of Poland
* List of Polish language films
References
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