An Uneventful Story

An Uneventful Story 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.

Plot

Michal 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, a young woman returns to the town and the two have an affair.

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 Mikuć 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 instead. 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 Hourglass Sanatorium to the Cannes Film Festival against their wishes. It was filmed in the city of Tarnów in the Polish province of Małopolskie.

Release

The film was released on 12 September 1983.