Story of an Unknown Actor (Russian: Повесть о неизвестном актёре, romanized: Povest o neizvestnom aktyore) is a Soviet drama film directed by Aleksandr Zarkhi in 1977.

For many years, he played in the provincial theater on lead roles.

The director of the piece based on the play, written for Goryaev, takes a young actor for his role.

Goryaev first falls into despair, leaves the theater, makes an appeal to his friends.

After a while, he digests what happened and realizes it's time to leave the scene adequately.