Chekhov's Motifs

Chekhov's Motifs
Directed by	Kira Muratova
Written by	Yevgeni Golubenko Kira Muratova
Produced by	Igor Kalyonov
Starring	Sergey Bekhterev
Cinematography	Valeri Makhnev
Release date	26 June 2002 (2002-06-26)
Running time	120 minutes
Countries	Russia Ukraine
Language	Russian

Chekhov's Motifs (Russian: Чеховские мотивы, translit. Chekhovskie motivy, since released in English as Chekhovian Motifs) is a 2002 Russian-Ukrainian comedy film directed by Kira Muratova. It was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. At the 2002 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards Kira Muratova received the prize for Best Director. It is based on two works of Anton Chekhov: the short story Difficult People is divided to frame the one act play Tatyana Repina.

Plot

In the large Shiryaev family, the eldest son, Pyotr, a university student, struggles to free himself from his domineering father. His meek mother tries to shield him, while his 13-year-old sister Varvara remains indifferent to the family's conflicts. As Pyotr leaves home to head to the city for his studies, he unexpectedly finds himself at a rural church where a wedding of visiting bohemians is taking place. During the lengthy church service, the guests, restless and bored, are suddenly distracted by a peculiar sight: a woman cloaked in black, moaning softly, appears within the church. Some guests, followed by the groom himself, begin to believe she is the ghost of his former lover, who had taken her own life.

Cast

• Sergey Bekhterev
• Nina Ruslanova
• Natalya Buzko
• Philip Panov (as Filipp Panov)
• Zhan Daniel
• Aleksandr Bashirov
• Yuri Shlykov

External links

• Chekhov's Motifs at IMDb