Originally planned as a follow up to The Saragossa Manuscript but rejected by censorship authorities, An Uneventful Story is a sensitive Chekhov adaptation which returns to the more intimate scale and introspection of Has' early films. Indeed, Has arguably goes even one step further with his poignant evocation of the rueful and melancholy point of view and inner dialogue of an aged professor of medicine looking back upon his life with bitter regret. Has' poetic approach to stream of consciousness and the subjective experience of time, a major thread connecting all of his films, reaches a kind of apogee in An Uneventful Story. A certain autobiographical dimension can be read into the film as an expression of the frustrations and dark obstacles that hampered Has' late career, in particular the difficult ten years of inactivity imposed on Has and broken finally for An Uneventful Story, as a punishment for having submitted The Hourglass Sanatorium to Cannes, against the wishes of the Communist authorities.