director Vitaly Melnikov takes on Lenfilm film of Anton Chekhov, "The lions, eagles, and partridges. The script is based on the memoirs of writer Lydia Avilova, Ivan Bunin, and correspondence of Chekhov. "'m Interested in history - at first glance, a very intimate, secret, concerning only two: the first time since the last novel by the writer Ivan Bunin said aloud, was closely associated with Chekhov before his death , - says the director. - But the more I was immersed in the details of the plot, the more private history overgrown with new signs of the times and characters. It appeared Stanislavsky, Leo Tolstoy, and other emblematic figures of the era В». Cast: Kirill Pirogov, Svetlana Ivanova, Ivan Krasko, Oleg Andreev, Svetlana Kryuchkov, Oksana Mysina, Vladimir Kolganov, Alexander Adabashyan and others.
