An Uneventful Story

An Uneventful Story (Polish: Nieciekawa historia) is a 1983 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Gustaw Holoubek. The film is an adaptation of a short story by Anton Chekhov and tells the story of a professor of medicine who begins an affair with a young pupil.

An Uneventful Story
Directed byWojciech Jerzy Has
Written byWojciech Jerzy Has
Based onСкучная история (A Dreary Story)
by Anton Chekhov
StarringGustaw Holoubek
Hanna Mikuc
Anna Milewska
CinematographyGrzegorz Kedzierski
Edited byBarbara Lewandowska-Conio
Music byJerzy Maksymiuk
Distributed byZespol Filmowy "Rondo"
Release date
  • 12 September 1983 (1983-09-12)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryPoland
LanguagePolish

Plot

Michal (Gustaw Holoubek) is a middle aged professor of medicine in a provincial town who is bored by the mundane and superficial nature of his life, friends and family. Katarzyna (Hanna Mikuc), a young woman returns to the town and the two have an affair.[1]

Cast
  • Marek Bargielowski as Michal
  • Wladyslaw Dewoyno as Mikolaj
  • Ewa Frackiewicz
  • Janusz Gajos as Aleksander Gnekker
  • Jacek Glowacki
  • Gustaw Holoubek as Professor
  • Jan Konieczny
  • Janusz Michalowski as Piotr
  • Hanna Mikuc as Katarzyna
  • Anna Milewska as Weronika
  • Wlodzimierz Musial
  • Jerzy Zygmunt Nowak as Waiter
  • Elwira Romanczuk as Liza
  • Leszek Zentara as Student

Production

Has first submitted a script for An Uneventful Story to the communist authorities as the follow-up project to The Saragossa Manuscript, when it was rejected he made The Codes (Szyfry) instead.[2] The film was the director's first after a hiatus of 10 years, after Has had a number of projects blocked by the communist authorities because he had taken The Hour-Glass Sanatorium to the Cannes Film Festival against their wishes.[3] It was filmed in the city of Tarnów in the Polish province of Małopolskie.[4]

Release

The film was released on 12 September 1983.

See also

References
  1. Cinefiles - An Uneventful Story University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. mip.berkeley.edu
  2. Guerin-Castell, Anne Literature and translation Jan Potocki and The Manuscript Found in Saragossa novel and film in Shaffer, Elinor (ed.) Comparative Criticism: An Annual Journal, Volume 24, Cambridge University Press, 2002 p.190
  3. Hodge, Nick (7 August 2010) Wojciech Has and the Interpretation of Dreams Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine krakowpost.com
  4. Nieciekawa historia filmpolski.pl
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