An Uneventful Story
# An Uneventful Story

An Uneventful Story (Polish: Nieciekawa historia) is a 1983 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Gustaw Holoubek. 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 as Aleksander Gnekker
* Jacek Glowacki
* Gustaw Holoubek 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, 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 to the Cannes Film Festival against their wishes. It was filmed in the city of Tarnów in the Polish province of Małopolskie.

## Release

The film was released on 12 September 1983.

