Overview
Plot
Oleg Borisov’s benefit performance draws on Anton Chekhov’s Swan Song, about an aging actor’s fate. He recalls past roles from Ostrovsky, Griboyedov, Shakespeare, and Gogol, recites Pushkin, and sings Okudzhava.
- Directors
- Yury Borisov
- Cast
- Oleg Borisov, Stanislav Isayev, Lyudmila Semenyaka, Natalya Tenyakova, Lev Borisov, Aleksandr Zuev, Nina Kilimnik
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Genre
- Drama, TV Movie
- Release date
- 1990-03-18
- Studios
- Central Television USSR
Plot
Warning: spoilers
This televised stage production is Oleg Borisov’s benefit performance, built around Anton Chekhov’s dramatic sketch Swan Song, which explores an aging actor’s fate. During the performance, the actor looks back on roles he played in productions based on works by Ostrovsky, Griboyedov, Shakespeare, and Gogol. He also recites poems by Pushkin and performs a song by Okudzhava.
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