---
title: 'Subject for a Short Story (1969)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Sergei Yutkevich'
released: '1969-08-01'
runtime_minutes: 86
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/subject-for-a-short-story-1969'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065057/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Subject for a Short Story (1969)

1969 · 86 min · Drama, History · Soviet Union, France

Original title: Un amour de Tchekhov

## Synopsis

Subject for a Short Story is a 1969 Soviet-French biographical drama film directed by Sergei Yutkevich.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Sergei Yutkevich](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-yutkevich)
- **Screenplay:** [Leonid Malyugin](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-malyugin)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Rodion Shchedrin](https://cinepixo.com/people/rodion-shchedrin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Naum Ardashnikov](https://cinepixo.com/people/naum-ardashnikov)

## Cast

- [Rolan Bykov](https://cinepixo.com/people/rolan-bykov) as Mikhail Chekhov
- [Ekaterina Vasilieva](https://cinepixo.com/people/ekaterina-vasilieva)
- [Yury Yakovlev](https://cinepixo.com/people/yury-yakovlev) as Ignaty Potapenko
- [Igor Kvasha](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-kvasha)
- [Aleksandr Shirvindt](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-shirvindt)
- [Leonid Gallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/leonid-gallis) as Vladimir Gilyarovsky
- [Aleksandra Panova](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandra-panova)
- [Nikolai Grinko](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-grinko) as Anton Chekhov
- [Georgi Tusuzov](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgi-tusuzov)
- [Yevgeni Lebedev](https://cinepixo.com/people/yevgeni-lebedev) as Pavel Chekhov
- [Aleksandr Kuznetsov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-kuznetsov)
- [Svetlana Svetlichnaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/svetlana-svetlichnaya)
- [Sergei Kulagin](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-kulagin)
- [Viktor Avdyushko](https://cinepixo.com/people/viktor-avdyushko)
- [Yevgeni Shutov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yevgeni-shutov)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/subject-for-a-short-story-1969
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