Film about Chekhov Biography

Czech documentary. Unknown Film, an unpublished life of unknown pages of the biography of the great Russian writer and playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The personality of Anton Chekhov is a mystery to many of our contemporaries today. He seemed to several generations of readers a dry painful old man in a pince -nez that reveals the ulcers of the bourgeois society. Chekhov was a handsome man, two meters in growth, with pleasure indulging in secular joys!

Anton Pavlovich left the life of 44 years, leaving the descendants with brilliant plays, stories and novels. And also letters in which he frankly talked about his relationships with women gave very unpleasant characteristics to many famous contemporaries. A lively, non -esteemed Chekhov will appear before the audience, far from the image from school textbooks! To drive Chekhov under the standard portrait of the ruler of the Duma, his own sister Maria began, she knocked with scissors sunk from the point of view of the letter and burned them in the fireplace, or simply soaked with ink whole lines.

Then the Soviet Czech scholars took up the case. Their efforts Anton Pavlovich turned into almost the forerunner of the revolution. The author of the film Sergei Medvedev introduced a unique opportunity to read the classic of world literature to read forever the letters of world literature with the help of modern equipment. In front of the viewer’s eyes from under the crossed out, words and sentences arise, for more than a hundred years, they were a secret for researchers.

Chekhov in the film acquires flesh and blood, loves and suffers, experiences the failure of his own works on theatrical stages and enjoys glory, after successful productions. The audience of Channel One find out that the negative heroes of his plays are real people who have ever offended the author of a man or the women who have changed him. He fell ill with consumption early - immediately after the end of the Moscow State University.

As a doctor, Chekhov could not help but understand what this threatens, but carefully drove the thoughts of illness from himself, inventing the most incredible explanations from the throat. Why did he avoid the attachment to women who sincerely loved him? An explanation for this phenomenon in the film is given by psychologists, historians, clinicians, actors who played in Chekhov plays, directors and writers.

Many of the “why” are answered by Chekhov himself in his letters, which the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater, Oleg Tabakov, reads the film, reads. Filming was carried out in the Winter Yalta, as if at the same time, when the sick and suffering from the loneliness of the Czechs wrote his most famous plays “Three Sisters”, “Cherry Orchard”, “Uncle Vanya”; In Taganrog, where the future great writer was born and raised.

In the Melikhovo estate near Moscow, the director of the film, along with actors in costumes of that time, recreates scenes from the life of the writer. It was also possible to find the Moscow temple, where the Orthodox Chekhov Ventchians Lutheranka Olga Knipper. The authors also found a boarding house in the German resort of Badenweiler, where Anton Pavlovich spent the last days of his life.

There is a sanatorium today, and in the room where the breath of a great man broke off, German inhabitants recover health. Chekhov’s body was brought to his homeland in the Kholodil wagon “for transporting oysters”. Anton Pavlovich with his inherent self -irony would probably be pleased with such an epitaph. Year: