Unfinished Story () is a 1955

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

romantic drama film directed by

Fridrikh Ermler Fridrikh Markovich Ermler (13 May 189812 July 1967) was a Soviet film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was a four-time recipient of the Stalin Prize (in 1941, twice in 1946, and in 1951). After studying pharmacology, he joined the Czari ...

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 Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor and filmmaker of Ukrainian origin who was one of the leading figures of Soviet cinema in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is known for his sweeping p ...

as Yuri Yershov * Sofia Giatsintova as Anna Yershova, Yuri's Mother * Yevgeny Samoylov as Aleksandr Aganin *

Yevgeni Lebedev Yevgeni Alekseyevich Lebedev ( rus, Евгeний Алeксeeвич Лeбeдeв, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐlʲɪkˈsʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf; January 15, 1917, Balakovo – June 9, 1997, Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian actor and ...

as Fyodor Ivanovich * Aleksandr Larikov as Grandpa Spirin * German Khovanov as Vasili Spirin * Yuri Tolubeyev as Nikolai Sladkov *

Erast Garin Erast Pavlovich Garin (September 4, 1980, born Gerasimov) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of ...

as Koloskov * Antonina Bogdanova as Aunt Polya * Vladimir Voronov as Ponomaryov * Boris Leskin as patient simulator

Release

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

Criticism

Éric Rohmer Jean Marie Maurice Schérer or Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (; 21 March 192011 January 2010), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and teacher. Rohmer was the last of the Post-war, p ...

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Unfinished Story 1955 films 1955 romantic drama films 1950s Soviet films 1950s Russian-language films Films about physicians Films directed by Fridrikh Ermler Films scored by Gavriil Popov Lenfilm films Russian-language romantic drama films Soviet romantic drama films