''An Uneventful Story'' ( pl, Nieciekawa historia) is a 1983 Polish film directed by

Wojciech Jerzy Has Wojciech Jerzy Has (1 April 1925, Kraków – 3 October 2000, Łódź) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer. Early life and studies Wojciech Jerzy Has was born in Kraków. Has himself was agnostic. However, his family ...

, starring

Gustaw Holoubek Gustaw Teofil Holoubek (21 April 1923 – 6 March 2008) was a Polish actor, director, member of the Polish Sejm, and a senator. Holoubek participated in the September Campaign and was a prisoner of war during the Nazi German Occupation of P ...

. 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 (Gustaw Holoubek) 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 (Hanna Mikuc), 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 Janusz Gajos (; born 23 September 1939) is a Polish film, television and theatre actor as well as pedagogue and photographer. Professor of Theatre Arts and an Honorary Doctor of the National Film School in Łódź, he is considered one of the gr ...

as Aleksander Gnekker * Jacek Glowacki *

as Professor * Jan Konieczny * Janusz Michalowski as Piotr * Hanna Mikuc 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 ''The Manuscript Found in Saragossa'' (; also known in English as ''The Saragossa Manuscript'') is a frame-tale novel written in French at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries by the Polish author Count Jan Potocki (1761–1815). It is narrated ...

'', when it was rejected he made '' The Codes'' (''Szyfry'') 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 Hour-Glass Sanatorium ''The Hourglass Sanatorium'' ( pl, Sanatorium pod klepsydrą) is a 1973 Polish surrealist film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Mieczysław Voit, Halina Kowalska and Gustaw Holoubek. It is also known as ''The ...

'' to the Cannes Film Festival against their wishes. It was filmed in the city of

Tarnów Tarnów () is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants. The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999. From 1975 to 1998, it was the capital of the Tarn� ...

in the Polish province of

Małopolskie Lesser Poland Voivodeship or Lesser Poland Province (in pl, województwo małopolskie ), also known as Małopolska, is a voivodeship (province), in southern Poland. It has an area of , and a population of 3,404,863 (2019). It was created on 1 ...

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Release

The film was released on 12 September 1983.

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