Man from the Restaurant

Yakov Protazanov, Mezhrabpomfilm, 1927, Soviet Union. From Ivan Shmelyov's story, adapted by Protazanov and Oleg Leonidov. Michael Chekhov as waiter Skorohodov after his son dies at the front and his wife dies; Vera Malinovskaya as the daughter; Ivan Koval-Samborsky as lodger Sokolin. Factory owner Karasyov, a restaurant regular, tries to take the girl. Infobox sixty-two minutes, released 12 June in the USSR and 4 January 1930 in the United States. The Commons file runs about sixty-nine minutes. Moskvin was meant to play the waiter; illness put Chekhov in the part. Protazanov shooting service work as a class trap.