• Source: Unfinished Story

      • Unfinished Story (Russian: Неоконченная повесть, romanized: Neokonchennaya povest) 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.


      Criticism


      Éric Rohmer wrote in 1959: The Unfinished Story is not a production without finds. Ermler lacks Barnet's sense of humor or Donskoy's pictorial skill, but some episodes of his painting are excellent examples of Russian school cinema: inept courtship of a doctor colleague, a family feast, a night meeting with singing students. The Soviets should have stuck to this warm everyday intonation, developed it — although, to tell the truth, they never abandoned it.


      References




      External links


      Unfinished Story at IMDb

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