An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano
Sep 05 1977
•2h 38m
•Drama
On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.
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Aleksandr Kalyagin
Mikhail Vassilyevich Platonov
Yelena Solovey
Sophia Yegorovna
Evgeniya Glushenko
Sashenka
Antonina Shuranova
Anna Petrovna Voinitseva
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