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An Hour with Chekhov (1929)

An Hour with Chekhov poster
Original title
Чины и люди
Directed by
Yakov Protazanov
Genre
comedy film, silent film, anthology film
Country
Soviet Union
Runtime
1h 04m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This Soviet silent film adapts three Anton Chekhov short stories. It shows ordinary people in awkward social situations including a clerk's nervous mistake and a man who keeps changing his story.

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What happens

An Hour with Chekhov (Russian: Чины и люди, romanized: Chini i lyudi, English: Ranks and People) is a 1929 Soviet anthology film directed by Yakov Protazanov and Mikhail Doller based on three short stories written by Anton Chekhov; "Anna on the Neck", "The Death of a Government Clerk", "The Chameleon" and dedicated to the 25th anniversary of his death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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