Unfinished Story (Russian: Неоконченная повесть, romanized: Neokonchennaya povest) is a 1955 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Fridrikh Ermler.

[1][2][3] The local doctor Yelizaveta Maksimovna is a beautiful woman and a wonderful sympathetic person.

Yelizaveta Maksimovna has one patient, a manly, full-energy ship builder Yershov, chained to the bed with a paralysis of both legs.

Ermler lacks Barnet's sense of humor or Donskoy's pictorial skill, but some episodes of his painting are excellent examples of Russian school cinema: inept courtship of a doctor colleague, a family feast, a night meeting with singing students.

The Soviets should have stuck to this warm everyday intonation, developed it — although, to tell the truth, they never abandoned it.