The Man from the Restaurant
About The Man from the Restaurant
After his son is killed at the front and his wife dies of grief, the widowed Moscow waiter Skorohodov rents a room to Sokolin, a young office messenger. Sokolin and Skorohodov's daughter fall in love. Karasyov, a factory owner who is a regular at the restaurant, decides to seduce her.
Cast & crew
More about The Man from the Restaurant
Yakov Protazanov directed and, with Oleg Leonidov, adapted Ivan Shmelyov's story. The part was written for Ivan Moskvin. Illness kept him out, and Michael Chekhov played it. Anatoli Golovnya and Konstantin Vents photographed the film. It opened in the USSR on 12 June 1927 and in the United States on 4 January 1930. English Wikipedia names the company Mezhrabpomfilm; Wikidata also lists Mezhrabpom-Rus.
Themes
Background
The restaurant serves the Moscow rich before the October Revolution. The son's death is placed at the front.
Making
Moskvin's illness is the reason Chekhov took the waiter. The role had been written for Moskvin.
Look
Anatoli Golovnya and Konstantin Vents were the cinematographers.
Notes
- Vera Malinovskaya, Ivan Koval-Samborsky, and Mikhail Zharov are in the cast.
- Stepan Kuznetsov and Mark Prudkin are also credited.
- It is a silent film.
Scenes
- Skorohodov lets the messenger Sokolin have the spare room, and his daughter falls in love with the lodger.
- Factory owner Karasyov, a regular at the restaurant, sets out to seduce her.
Influenced by
- Ivan Shmelyov's story
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Man from the Restaurant (1927).webm)
