An Uneventful Story
Directed byWojciech Jerzy Has
Written byWojciech Jerzy Has
Based onСкучная история (A Dreary Story)
by Anton Chekhov
StarringGustaw Holoubek
Hanna Mikuc
Anna Milewska
CinematographyGrzegorz Kedzierski
Edited byBarbara Lewandowska-Conio
Music byJerzy 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.

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

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