title: An Uneventful Story
text: # 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.
  
  