An Uneventful Story

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An Uneventful Story
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Directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has
Written byWojciech Jerzy Has
Based onСкучная история (A Dreary Story)
by Anton Chekhov
Starring Gustaw Holoubek
Hanna Mikuc
Anna Milewska
CinematographyGrzegorz Kedzierski
Edited byBarbara Lewandowska-Conio
Music by Jerzy Maksymiuk
Distributed byZespol Filmowy "Rondo"
Release date
  • 12 September 1983 (1983-09-12)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

An Uneventful Story (Polish : Nieciekawa historia) 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.

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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.

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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 Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine krakowpost.com
  4. Nieciekawa historia filmpolski.pl