1980

Description : Drama-Period Film-Satire

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

Country: Russian

Heroism: Oleg Tabakov - Oblomov

Artists: Andryusha Razumovsky Yuri Bogatyrev - Shtoltz Oleg Kozlov Andrei Popov Yelena Solovey - Olga Ilyinskaya Avangard Leontyev Yelena Kleshchevskaya Galina Shostko Gleb Strizhenov Yevgeny Steblov Yevgenya Glushenko Nikolai

Nikita Mikhalkov  - Director / Screenwriter
Alexander Adabachian - Screenwriter
Ivan Goncharov - Book Author
Pavel Lebeshev - Cinematographer
Eduard Artemyev  - Composer (Music Score

Description:

Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov takes a break from emulating his beloved Chekhov to film the classic Ivan Goncharov novel Oblomov. The title character (played by Oleg Tabakov) is a 19th century Russian civil servant and landlord who chooses to go to bed one day--and never get up. Preferring to sleep his way through life rather than confront it, Oblomov is shaken from his slumbers by the arrival of a childhood friend Shtoltz. A series of flashbacks show why it is that this friend's presence gets Oblomov out of his 'jammies and back on his feet. Also known as A Few Days in the Life of I. I. Oblomov, this sprightly film is an excellent early example of the work of the director who would win a 1994 Oscar for his Burnt by the Sun.