#Anton chekhov a visit to friends pdf movie#

She is very industrious, works at a school, teaches peasant children, tries to set up a medical center for peasants… Her hands-on attitude gets under the artist's skin. The elder sibling is the complete opposite. The younger sister, youthful and dreamy, admires the artist’s paintings, and he falls in love with her. One day he meets a widow with two daughters, who live next door in a house with a mezzanine.

The story is told from the viewpoint of an artist who leads an idle life, whose only interests are walking and drinking tea.

#Anton chekhov a visit to friends pdf movie#

The House with the Mezzanine, 1896Ī still from 'The House with the Mezzanine' movie Reading the Gospel and church books is boring for him, and it is only through meeting real people and understanding their experiences that the meaning of life can be glimpsed. In the course of this (very) short story, the student undergoes an incredible transformation. And the student realizes that she truly empathizes with Peter’s anguish, and the tale resonates with her despite the passing of centuries… Out of boredom, he begins to retell them the biblical story of Peter’s denial of Christ and suggests that it must have been a similarly cold and awful night. On the way, the student encounters two widowed peasant women from his village: a mother and daughter. In a gloomy mood, he starts to imagine how the bitter wind must have blown at the time of Rurik and Peter the Great, and has been blowing for a thousand years, during which time nothing has changed, the same poverty, longing and ignorance still abound. When a student of the Theological Academy is walking home, the cold sets in abruptly and a strong wind begins to blow.