An Uneventful Story

(1983)

★ 6.3 IMDb · 11 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1983

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: Poland

Director: Wojciech Jerzy Has

Cast: Gustaw Holoubek, Hanna Mikuć, Anna Milewska, Elwira Romańczuk, Marek Bargiełowski, Януш Гайос, Janusz Michałowski, Władysław Dewoyno, Ева Фрацкевич, Jan Konieczny

Plot

A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.