The Grasshopper (1955)★ 6.9/10

SUHH · 91 min · June 10, 1955

• Drama

Directed by: Samson Samsonov

Written by: Anton Chekhov, Samson Samsonov

Osip Ivanovich Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly enough for a covering of expenses of the wife mad about talents and celebrities in the art and artistic environment whom it daily accepts in the house.