Unfinished Story

Unfinished Story (Неоконченная повесть) is a 1955 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Fridrikh Ermler.

Plot
The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person. She is lonely, although she is cared for by a confident and promising colleague. Yelizaveta Maksimovna has one patient, a manly, full-energy ship builder Yershov, chained to the bed with a paralysis of both legs.

All doctors recommend him rest, and Elizaveta Maksimovna advises to work and not feel sorry for herself. Yershov with all his heart falls in love with his doctor, and she loves him, but she does not dare to say her feelings, Ershov thinks that he has no hopes.

Cast

 * Elina Bystritskaya as Yelizaveta Muromtseva
 * Sergey Bondarchuk as Yuri Yershov
 * Sofia Giatsintova as Anna Yershova, Yuri's Mother
 * Yevgeny Samoylov as Aleksandr Aganin
 * Yevgeni Lebedev as Fyodor Ivanovich
 * Aleksandr Larikov as Grandpa Spirin
 * German Khovanov as Vasili Spirin
 * Yuri Tolubeyev as Nikolai Sladkov
 * Erast Garin as Koloskov
 * Antonina Bogdanova as Aunt Polya
 * Vladimir Voronov as Ponomaryov
 * Boris Leskin as patient simulator

Release
Fridrikh Ermler's film watched 29.3 million viewers, which is 406 results in the history of Soviet film distribution.