An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, who also co-stars. It is based on Anton Chekhov's Platonov, as well as several of his other short stories. It was filmed at Pushchino-Na-Oke (Artsebashev Estate), Pushchino, Russia, which was dilapidated in the film and is now abandoned.

Plot
Some members of the gentry gather at a house in rural Russia in the early twentieth century. As the day progresses, relationships develop, and the question arises of where these new relationships will lead.

Cast

 * Aleksandr Kalyagin: Mikhail Vassilyevich Platonov
 * Elena Solovey: Sophia Yegorovna
 * Yevgeniya Glushenko: Sashenka
 * Antonina Shuranova: Anna Petrovna Voinitseva
 * Yuri Bogatyryov: Sergey Pavlovich Voinitsev
 * Oleg Tabakov: Pavel Petrovich Shcherbuk
 * Nikolai Pastukhov: Porfiry Semyonovich Glagolyev
 * Pavel Kadochnikov: Ivan Ivanovich Triletsky
 * Nikita Mikhalkov: Nikolai Ivanovich Triletsky
 * Anatoli Romashin: Gerasim Kuzmich Petrin
 * Natalya Nazarova: Verochka
 * Kseniya Minina: Lizochka
 * Sergey Nikonenko: Yakov
 * Sergei Guryev: Petechka (as Seryozha Guryev)

Critical response
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano has an approval rating of 86% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 7 reviews, and an average rating of 8.00/10.

The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited this movie as one of his 100 favorite films.