TEHRAN Stage director and actress Shiva Ordui, who is also a translator of literary compositions, has made her screen debut with a short film based on Anton Chekhovs short story Misery.The film entitled Pause has been written and co-produced by Ordui.Omid Mohammadnejad, Raha Khodayari, Yasser Asghari, Ehsan Sadeqi, Parsa Arainejad, Mohammad Shami, Alireza Amani and Nirvana Yusefi star in the short film.
A press release published on Thursday by Pause public relations gave no details about the story of the short movie.Misery was first published in Peterburgskaya Gazetas No.
26 issue on January 16, 1886.
With minor changes, it appeared in the Motley Stories collection.In 1895, it made its way into an anthology called Probleski.
In a slightly revised version, Chekhov included it into Volume 3 of his Collected Works published by Adolf Marks in 18991901.The short is about the cabman Iona, whose son has recently died.
He desperately and unsuccessfully tries to have a talk with the people he meets and tell them how shattered he is.
He ends up talking to his horse.The story was positively reviewed by Peterburgskiye Vedomosti and N.
Ladozhsky.Leonid Obolensky, writing for Russkoye Bogatstvo, praised Chekhov for his extraordinary ability to see the hidden drama behind deceptively simple things, and cited Misery as a perfect example of that.In an 1887 essay called The Writers of Our Times, Konstantin Arsenyev included Misery on his list of the best contemporary short stories.Leo Tolstoy included Misery into his personal list of Chekhovs best stories.Photo: A scene from the short film Pause by Shiva Ordui.MMS/YAW