Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), a Russian doctor and writer, is the world’s most performed playwright after Shakespeare.

He was 44 years old when, in July 1904, with his last breath, he uttered in German “Ich sterbe (I am dying)”.

From Moscow to Badenweiler in southern Germany, “A Selfie with Anton Chekhov“ questions these final words and puts the author’s brief, selfless and altruistic existence into perspective with our own finiteness.

A film by : Dominique DE RIVAZ

Camera : Dimitrij LELTSCHUK, Dominique DE RIVAZ

Additional camera and sound: Elena NAUMOVA, Tamara SERGEEVA, Rustam AKHMEDSIN, Elena MASKP, André UGER, Andreï ZHUCHKOV

Editing : Sophie WATZLAWICK

Music : Jonas FISCHER, Synchron Stage Orchestra Vienna

Studio shootig : ECAL / Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, Dominique Dardant

Production : Louise Productions Vevey

Production manager : Heinz DILL

Production assistant : Chloé SEDLATCHEK, Laetitia CERVINI

Accountant : Agnès BAUD GERBER

Colograding : Christoph WALTHER, Trinipix

Sound editing and mix: Peter VON SIEBENTHAL, Projektstudio GmbH, Kathleen MOSER, Daniel BLEUER

Foley artist : Synchon- & Audiopost Andreas Drost, Peter Sandmann

Traduction : Yla VON DACH

With

Doctor : Philippe GRAY

With the voice

The narrator : Alexandra KARAMISARIS

Letters d’Anton P.Chekhov : Michel VOÏTA

La Cerisaie’s extract : Adrien BARAZZONE

Maxime Gorki : Rustam AKHMEDSIN

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