Man from the Restaurant
1927 film by Yakov Protazanov
- 12 June 1927 (1927-06-12) (USSR)
- 4 January 1930 (1930-01-04) (USA)
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Man from the Restaurant (Russian: Человек из ресторана) is a 1927 Soviet drama film directed by Yakov Protazanov based on the story by Ivan Shmelyov. The main role was written for Ivan Moskvin, but he was changed for Chekhov because of illness.
Plot
After the death of his son at the front, and his wife's demise, widower waiter Skorohodov rents his room to Sokolin, a young man who works as a messenger in one of the offices. The lodger and Skorohodov's daughter fall in love with each other, but an unexpected contender has appeared to the modest young man in the guise of Karasyov, a constant patron of the restaurant, a factory owner who decides to seduce the woman who he has taken a liking to.
Cast
- Michael Chekhov
- Vera Malinovskaya
- Ivan Koval-Samborsky
- Mikhail Narokov
- Mikhail Klimov
- Andrey Petrovsky
- K. Alekseyeva
- Mikhail Zharov
- Raisa Karelina-Raich
- Sofya Yakovleva
- Stepan Kuznetsov
- Mark Prudkin
References
- Leyda, Jay (1960), Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film, New York: Macmillan, OCLC 1683826.
- Aleinikov, Moisei, ed. (1957), Yakov Protazanov: O tvorcheskom puti rezhissera (in Russian), Moscow: Iskusstvo, OCLC 13571289.
External links
- Man from the Restaurant at IMDb
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Yakov Protazanov filmography
- Departure of a Grand Old Man (1912)
- The Queen of Spades (1916)
- Satan Triumphant (1917)
- Father Sergius (1917)
- Aelita (1924)
- His Call (1925)
- The Tailor from Torzhok (1925)
- The Three Million Trial (1926)
- Man from the Restaurant (1927)
- The Forty-First (1927)
- The White Eagle (1928)
- St. Jorgen's Day (1930)
- Tommy (1931)
- Marionettes (1934)
- Without Dowry (1937)
- Salavat Yulayev (1941)
- Nasreddin in Bukhara (1943)
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