Story of an Unknown Actor

Story of an Unknown Actor
Directed by	Aleksandr Zarkhi
Written by	Aleksandr Zarkhi Vladimir Valutsky
Starring	Yevgeny Yevstigneyev Alla Demidova
Cinematography	Pyotr Shumsky
Music by	Alfred Schnittke
Production company	Mosfilm[1]
Release date	3 October 1977 (1977-10-03) (Soviet Union)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Story of an Unknown Actor (Russian: Повесть о неизвестном актёре, romanized: Povest o neizvestnom aktyore) is a Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi in 1977.^[2]

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev, middle-aged actor. For many years, he played in the provincial theater on lead roles. The director of the piece based on the play, written for Goryaev, takes a young actor for his role. Goryaev first falls into despair, leaves the theater, makes an appeal to his friends. After a while, he digests what happened and realizes it's time to leave the scene adequately.

• Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as Pavel Goryaev^[3]
• Alla Demidova as Olga Svetilnikova
• Igor Kvasha as Viktor Vereshchagin
• Angelina Stepanova as Maria Goryaeva
• Igor Starygin as Vadim
• Vladislav Strzhelchik as Mikhail Tverskoy
• Valentin Gaft as director Znamensky
• Mikhail Kononov as Petya Strizhov
• Nikolay Trofimov as Pyotr Fomich
• Pavel Vinnik as Ferapontov
• Irina Murzaeva as old actress
• Nikolay Smorchkov as actor
• Valentina Telegina as episode

• Winter Evening in Gagra (1985)

• Story of an Unknown Actor at IMDb