A P Chekhov - Adaptations
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- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsCharles VanelDaniele SpalloneCristina GaioniIn 19th century Russia, an 8 year-old boy is sent from his home village to the big city to go to school. On his long way there, he gets to witness the often harsh realities of life in the steppe. Based on allegorical novel by Chekhov.
- DirectorClaude MillerStarsNicole GarciaBernard GiraudeauJean-Pierre MarielleA group of cinematic spend a holiday in the French countryside. The film provides insight in their relationships, including that between a young man and a local girl, Lili. She uses the opportunity to work her way into the cinematic world, and for which she swaps her young friend for his mother's lover. This settled filmmaker takes Lili on a trip to Paris. A few years later the young man has become a filmmaker himself. His first film is inspired by the mentioned holiday. Lili, by now an actress, learns about it and works herself in a refined way into its cast. Ending up as the star of this production. No more than that, for the young filmmaker remains faithful to his wife and young daughter.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsCharlotte RamplingAlan BatesTushka BergenAbandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.
- DirectorYakov BazelyanStarsSergey YakovlevNinel MyshkovaLarisa GordeychikBased on the story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov "The House with the Mezzanine"
- DirectorDmitriy DolininStanislav LyubshinStarsAlbert FilozovAlisa FreyndlikhValentin GaftAlexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to marry her, but the relationship is not going to be simple.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsOleg KuznetsovNikolay TrofimovVladimir SedovA boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.
- DirectorVytautas ZalakeviciusStarsEvgeniya SimonovaAleksandr KaydanovskiyGeorgiy TaratorkinA revolutionary gets a job as a lackey to a certain official Orlov in order to get to Orlov's father, a famous statesman. But life in Orlov's house changes his intentions and attitude towards life.
- DirectorWojciech HasStarsGustaw HoloubekHanna MikucAnna MilewskaAnother monotonous day in the dull life of a medical professor, disillusioned by his university work, students, wife and family.
- DirectorIvan DykhovichnyyStarsTatyana DrubichStanislav LyubshinPyotr FomenkoMan who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.
- DirectorArtur VojtetskyStarsBogdan StupkaValentina SaltovskayaLidiya EzhevskayaTired archiereus of Orthodox Church falls ill and experiences loneliness on his deathbed, having flashbacks to childhood.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsAndrei PopovAnatoliy PapanovNonna Terentyeva"In the City of S." is a Soviet film adaptation of one of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's most famous short stories "Ionich". This is a story about a young promising doctor Dmitry Ionich Startsev, who moves to a county town where he was appointed a doctor. At first, the life of a budding newcomer in these parts was literally in full swing. He had a lot of new acquaintances and discoveries ahead of him. He met the Turkins, a well-known family in these parts, who were known in the district for their education. Over time, he began to visit them often, where he fell in love with the young Ekaterina Turkina. However, the ambitious girl did not want to stay further in the province and went to Moscow to enter the conservatory, refusing Startsev's offer. Ionich remained where it all began, sinking more and more into the abyss of a well-fed and sluggish existence.
- DirectorAndrey LadyninAleksandr Sheyn Sr.Sergey SolovyovStarsAlisa FreyndlikhVyacheslav TikhonovNikolay BurlyaevThe film almanac consists of four short stories shot according to A. P. Chekhov's stories.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsIya SavvinaAleksey BatalovNina AlisovaA love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.
- DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsSergey BondarchukLyudmila TselikovskayaVladimir DruzhnikovOsip 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.
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsGalina BelyaevaOleg YankovskiyKirill LavrovA romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.
- DirectorIsidor AnnenskyStarsNikolay KhmelyovMikhail ZharovOlga AndrovskayaThe Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: "no matter what happens".
- DirectorIsidor AnnenskyStarsOlga AndrovskayaMikhail ZharovIvan PelttserThe young widow refuses to pay the husband's debt to the landowner neighbor Smirnov. Smirnov in a rage causes her to a duel and then falls in love with her.
- DirectorIsidor AnnenskyStarsAleksey GribovFaina RanevskayaZoya FyodorovaPetty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov (Erast Garin), who had lunch with them daily and proved himself to be a fiance, is not going to marry at all. With great difficulty, Dasha's father managed to persuade an ambitious groom to make an offer. The groom agreed, stipulating that the general attend the wedding.
- DirectorVadim DubrovitskiyStarsAleksandr BurmistrovAnna DubrovskayaVladimir IlinThe film is based on the play by Anton Chekhov. Nikolai Alekseyevich Ivanov is a man who brings misfortunes to all who surround him. He is experiencing a crisis and acutely feeling the emptiness and senselessness of the surrounding reality.
- DirectorSergei OvcharovStarsRoman AgeevEvgeniy BaranovAnna Brenner-VartanyanBased on Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Orchard is an eccentric comedy about class struggles in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. An aging aristocratic lady returns home to face the loss of her magnificent cherry orchard estate. (Russian with English subtitles).
- DirectorAnna TchernakovaStarsTatyana LavrovaAleksandr FeklistovYelena KolchuginaMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- DirectorLeonid HeifetzStarsRufina NifontovaElena KorenevaTamara TorchinskayaMme Ranevskaya, her daughter Anya, and their servants return to their ancestral home in Russia from a sojourn in Paris. Their estate contains a beautiful and famous cherry orchard, which the family is pressured, by debt, to sell and parcel out for "development."
- DirectorPeter BrookStarsNiels ArestrupCatherine FrotClaude EvrardMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- DirectorYuli KarasikStarsAlla DemidovaVladimir ChetverikovNikolai PlotnikovBased on Chekhov's homonymous play, "The Seagull" narrates the story of a disturbed family and their acquaintances during summertime in the countryside.
- DirectorRichard EyreStarsJudi DenchBill PatersonAnton LesserMadame Ranevsky (Dame Judi Dench) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin (Bill Paterson), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJames MasonVanessa RedgraveSimone SignoretFilm adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
- DirectorMichael ElliottStarsPeggy AshcroftJohn GielgudDorothy TutinMadame Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevsky (Peggy Ashcroft) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin (George Murcell), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- DirectorMichael MayerStarsAnnette BeningCorey StollGlenn FleshlerIn the early twentieth century, an aging actress and her lover visit the estate of her elderly brother.
- DirectorAngela SchanelecStarsJirka ZettMiriam HorwitzAngela SchanelecA family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still inhabits the house with her writer son Konstantin.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsLaura BettiGiulio BrogiPamela VilloresiThis quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
- DirectorSergei DesnitskyMariya MuatStarsAngelina StepanovaOleg StrizhenovGaliks KolchitskiyChekhov's play about the existential conflicts of young playwright Konstantin, his girlfriend, his mother and her younger lover. Made for TV based on the stage production of the Moscow Art Theater, directed by Sergey Desnitsky.
- DirectorSergei DesnitskyStarsIrina MiroshnichenkoVladlen DavydovYelena KondratovaChekhov's immortal classic about three sisters who live in a provincial town, in 19th century Russia, but dream of going back to Moscow and rewriting their own story.
- DirectorBoris BlankStarsAndrey TashkovYuliya MenshovaMarina BakinaOlga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- DirectorPaul BogartStarsLuther AdlerWilliam Paul BurnsTamara DaykarhanovaIn a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierJohn SichelStarsJeanne WattsJoan PlowrightLouise PurnellNearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
- DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsLyubov SokolovaMargarita VolodinaTatyana MalchenkoIn a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
- DirectorYuri GrymovStarsLyudmila PolyakovaAnna KamenkovaIrina MazurkevichThree sisters are living in a village. They dream about moving to a big city, but have to always put it off because of different events.
- DirectorSergey SolovyovStarsOlga BelyayevaKseniya KachalinaElena KorikovaIn a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
- DirectorValeria Bruni TedeschiStarsEric RufBruno RaffaelliFlorence VialaOlga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- DirectorJean PratStarsDominique LacarrièreClotilde JoanoSeda MalianeOlga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- DirectorJean-Marie ColdefyStarsDenise BaillyJean-Luc BouttéGeorges ChamaratOlga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- DirectorJean PratStarsDagmar DeisenAnne DeleuzeRaphaël DelpardOlga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
- DirectorChristian CamargoStarsKatie HolmesWilliam HurtAllison JanneyReckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," set in rural New England in 1984.
- DirectorTatyana BerezantsevaLev RudnikStarsOleg StrizhenovVladimir DruzhnikovLyudmila ShagalovaThe plot of the film is based on the confrontation between two outstanding personalities - Laevsky and von Koren. Each of them has its own principles, its own position in life.
- DirectorVatroslav MimicaStarsPavle VuisicSergio Mimica-GezzanBoris DvornikA grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.
- DirectorHoward DaviesRoss MacGibbonStarsClaudie BlakleyMark BonnarPip CarterMadame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage.
- DirectorGrigori NikulinStarsPetr ShelokhonovAlla BalterMikhail KhrabrovMr. Laptev is a wealthy intellectual, who falls in love with young Julia. She is not in love, but she uses their marriage to upgrade her life. Laptev suffers without a mutual love, but remains a loving husband. They carry on through the death of their first child, and are rewarded with the birth of a charming daughter. And their marriage, after three years turns into a beautiful romance.
- DirectorMikhail ShvejtserStarsVladimir BasovNatalya VorobyovaEvgeniy LeonovAn anthology of seven interconnected short stories.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsAleksandr KalyaginElena SoloveyEvgeniya GlushenkoIn Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.
- DirectorLucian PintilieStarsSlobodan 'Cica' PerovicZoran RadmilovicSlavko SimicA study of the mental breakdown of a doctor in a remote rural village. He believes himself intellectually superior to everyone except for a political prisoner in a mental ward. This is a metaphor on life under repressive governments, conformity versus individual expression.
- DirectorMladomir 'Purisa' DjordjevicStarsDusica ZegaracDragomir CumicIrena ProsenA short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting. Inspired by Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog".
- DirectorAnna TchernakovaStarsAleksandr AdabashyanAlyona BabenkoPavel BelozerovAfter a long absence, ageing theatre director Sorin returns to Moscow to resurrect his legendary staging of The Cherry Orchard. His discovery of a grave stone bearing his own name makes him realise that the actors who invited him have a very different plan for ensuring the success of the play!
- DirectorBernard ÉmondStarsPaul SavoieMarie-Ève PelletierMarie-Thérèse Fortin-Nicolas a consacré sa vie à son travail scientifique et médical et s'aperçoit que sa vie personnelle en a souffert. Cet homme de science célèbre, au crépuscule de sa vie et atteint d'une maladie incurable, n'a de l'affection réelle que pour sa fille adoptive Katia. Dans ce drame psychologique, le réalisateur a choisi d'adapter le récit 'Une banale histoire' d'Anton Tchekov publié en 1889. Le film propose une réflexion sombre et dépassionnée sur les valeurs de la vie, telle que vue par un homme sur ses derniers jours.
- DirectorKonstantin KhudyakovStarsYuliya PeresildYulia SnigirAnya ChipovskayaThree sisters happen to live out of Russia, in s small Baltic city. Like Chekhov's three sisters, they're desperate to move to Moscow. But the fate has its own plans.
- DirectorEsteban PerroudA troupe of Argentinian actors are on tour in France performing The Seagull a version of Chekhov play's. In the middle of the trip, Maria is on a crisis and decides not to speak, neither to her couple. Everyone tries to convince her to speak
- DirectorCarol MacVeyStarsRebekah SteinJeff WordenJoe Curnutte
- DirectorSaddiq AbubakarStarsSiena D'AddarioJeanette DiloneEmmanuel ElpenordActors rehearse the classic Chekhov play and are immersed in a world that straddles the line between the theater and reality.
- DirectorChristiaan OlwagenStarsSandra PrinslooMarius WeyersAlbert PretoriusA modern adaption of Anton Chekhov's THE SEAGULL: a famous actress pays summer visits to her brother and her son on their country estate, and one year she brings along her lover, a successful writer. This leads to familial conflict, heartbreak, and tragedy.
- DirectorRyûsuke HamaguchiStarsHidetoshi NishijimaTôko MiuraReika KirishimaA renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with a big personal loss when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsWallace ShawnPhoebe BrandGeorge GaynesNew York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiySergey BondarchukIrina KupchenkoThe ordinary life of the Russian provincial intellectuals seems to them gray and bleak. Are exceptions possible?
- DirectorRoss MacGibbonIan RicksonStarsRoger AllamRichard ArmitageAnna Calder-MarshallThe Professor retires and moves back into his estate with his young wife, turning the lives of those who have been maintaining it in his absence upside down.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsMarcello MastroianniSilvana ManganoMarthe KellerAn Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
- DirectorLeon FederStarsAksel ErhardtsenLene TiemrothHenning MoritzenA retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Jelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanja) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. Sonja, the professor's daughter, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable. He calls a doctor (Astrof) to treat his gout, only to send him away without seeing him. Astrof is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. The presence of Jelena introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household. Astrof and Uncle Vanja both fall in love with Jelena; she spurns them both. Meanwhile, Sonja is in love with Astrof, who fails even to notice her. Finally, when the professor announces he wants to sell the estate, Vanja, whose admiration for the man died with his sister, tries to kill him.
- DirectorAnthony HopkinsStarsAnthony HopkinsLeslie PhillipsKate BurtonChekov's Uncle Vanya, transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquility of a country house is disturbed by the arrival of the estate's tyrannical owner and his American wife.
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsHaluk BilginerMelisa SözenDemet AkbagA hotel owner and landlord in a remote Turkish village deals with conflicts within his family and a tenant behind on his rent.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsFanny ArdantGreta ScacchiValeria GolinoRoberto and his three sisters don't know what to do with their lives.