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Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’ unique 21st century modernisation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, with direction by Jamie Lloyd.
Lui-même (archives)
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The New York Times recently called Dmitry Krymov “one of the world’s finest theatermakers.” For this new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, the world-renowned Russian director collaborates with the Wilma’s acclaimed HotHouse Acting Company to reimagine one of theater’s enduring masterworks. What is it like to lose your home? The Cherry Orchard centers around a Russian family grappling with the potential foreclosure of their estate, and a community in transition as the old makes way for the new. Volleyballs and sunflower seeds fly, while a giant mechanical train station flipboard tells the future … plus more surprises await in Krymov’s inventive re-interpretation. One family is in danger of losing their home, their comfort, and their power. What comes next … and who will profit?
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"Documents of the staging" of the play The seagull at the Orologio Theatre in Rome.
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A woman finds out that her 7-year-old son has stolen from her. She tries to explain that it was wrong but has difficulties conversing at a level the boy can understand. She improvises her message in a bedtime story. Based on a novel by Anton Chekhov.
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Adaptación teatral de la obra de Chéjov. Grabada en cuatro días de agosto de 2020 en el teatro Harold Pinter de Londres durante el confinamiento de la COVID-19.
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Adaptation of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s story A Malefactor. An unemployed resident of one of the Ukrainian villages, Andrii Konotop, is detained on suspicion of stealing wires from electric poles. The case is simple and clear – Konotop was taken red-handed. Andrii is an ordinary villager and a rather simple man. He is being optimistic and does not understand the seriousness of the case.
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Disenchanted with the corruption of society, Jacob joins a Zen monastery. One day his meditation practice ignites a spontaneous out of body experience, compelling him to explore the more esoteric dimension of astral travel where he discovers bizarre new worlds that shake and alter the very ground of his being.
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Bringing together one of the world’s great classic plays with one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Druid present Tom Murphy’s version of Chekhov’s masterpiece The Cherry Orchard at Black Box Theatre, Galway and Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin. A play about land, legacy, and the struggle between tradition and change, this is the first major production of Tom Murphy’s work since his death in 2018.
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Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos.
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The "To Stumble" comedy is based on "Death of an Official" story by Anton Chekhov. Trying to catch the ironic intonation of the writer, in whom the comedic side by side with the tragic, the director blurs the boundaries of time and talks about the present day.
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Vanya and his niece Sonya struggle to care for the estate owned by Vanya’s brother-in-law Alexánder, a wealthy professor. When he returns with a beautiful new wife and plans to sell the estate, hidden passions explode and lives come undone.
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A revolution breaks out, caused by a financial crisis, business intrigues and corresponding natural disasters. Alexander flees from the uprising in the capital to Uncle Vanya's farm in the countryside. There Alexander and his beautiful wife Elena cause further chaos with Alexander's business ideas. Will Vanya and Sonja manage to protect their farm from the outrage of capitalism?
Theatre Play
En Rusia, a finales del siglo XIX, la veterana y vanidosa estrella del teatro Irina Arkádina (Annette Bening), cuyos días de gloria quedaron en el pasado, pasa los días en una finca de ensueño cerca de un lago, propiedad de su hermano enfermo (Brian Dennehy). Allí tendrá que compartir el tiempo con varias personas: su amante, el famoso escritor Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll); su hijo y aspirante a escritor (Billy Howle) y la ingenua actriz Nina Zarechnaya (Saoirse Ronan). Durante esa temporada, todos tendrán que hacer frente a una serie de conflictos, tanto románticos como artísticos, mientras sufren al haberse enamorado de las personas inadecuadas.
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Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.
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russian comedy
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A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.
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An obnoxious man ends up in court facing a familiar judge after a dispute over archery.
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For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most expansively melancholy plays.
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Alice Howland, felizmente casada con tres hijos ya adultos, es una reconocida profesora de lingüística que comienza a olvidarse de las palabras. Luego de recibir un diagnóstico devastador, Alice y su familia ponen a prueba sus vínculos.
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Ottaal (The Trap) is an adaptation of one of Anton Chekhov's timeless works, Vanka. A story of the 18th century, but one that has traveled the time and space to be retold in the present day at a small village in the South of India. Kuttappayi, a young boy, is miserable and desperate as he starts writing a letter to his grandfather from a place, dim and dark. Kuttappayi's recollections takes us to the picturesque locations of Kuttanad, where Kuttappayi and his grandpa, Valiyappachayi, are arriving with their ducks. The village is as pleasant as it can be even though what brings him there is the death of his dearest parents. With hope and freedom, he is about to start his life afresh among the village's letter-less postman, the nameless dog, the rich lad, Tinku and many more.
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Elizabeth, una estrella de cine, lleva a Peter, su amante a su casa a su casa del lago para visitar a su familia en el fin de semana del Memorial Day. Durante estos dos días, un desastroso giro en los acontecimientos causa estragos en la familia.
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An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building.
Theatre Play
An adaptation of the play by Anton Chekhov.
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A young actress changing in the privacy of her dressing room, finds the theater's aging owner hiding behind her sofa. He begs her for mercy, claiming to be hiding from a lover's very violent and very angry husband.
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Madame 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.
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Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to abandon her.
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CHekhov adaptation.
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A drama based on a classic short story by Anton Chekhov.
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Adaptación de una historia de Antón Chéjov en forma de falso documental a cargo del mítico cineasta ruso Karen Shakhnazarov seleccionada por Rusia como candidata a los Oscar.
Basada en hechos reales; se centra en el médico jefe de un manicomio que acaba convirtiéndose en paciente del mismo. Respetando el relato original, los autores trasladaron deliberadamente la acción al presente, rodando la película en un manicomio real de una manera semi-documental.
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Based 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.
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A 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 Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of them drift away from each other more and more.
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On the forest lake the person "from nothing to do" killed a Seagull. The symbolism of this story allowed Chekhov to Express the psychologically complex "inextricably unconnected" relationships of the characters living near a beautiful lake, suffering, hoping, searching, but unable to find themselves and their place in life.The most difficult in the fate of Anton Chekhov, but also the most famous and popular play in theaters in the world. Its simplicity, unique theatricality and stage longevity attract Directors and actors who, with each new production, offer the audience to unravel the mystery of the play, in which the author presented the drama of people in the Comedy genre. Famous film Director Andrey Konchalovsky offers a new version of the play, insisting that the stage action he staged is exactly the version of "the Seagull" that Chekhov intended it to be.
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Kairat, a teacher of mathematics, accidentally meets Aslar, along with whom he studied in university. Askar invites him to his home, where Kairat becomes acquainted with Togzhan, the wife of Askar. And he falls in love with her. Though this love was mutual, they couldn't step over the obstacles already made by their lives. Their emotions delayed. The script is based on the novel by Chekhov's About Love, Gooseberry.
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This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore. Darezhan Omirbayev's ABOUT LOVE (38 min) is a bitter love story based on Anton Chekhov's novel, in which a lonely math teacher falls in love with her married university classmate. Pen-ek Ratanaruang's TWELVE TWENTY (30 min) depicts the encounters of a man and a woman on a long haul flight, where they spend the next twelve hours and twenty minutes reading, drinking, eating and watching movies and sleeping by each other's side, as if they are a married couple.
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Después de la muerte de su padre, tres hermanas y un hermano tienen que luchar codo con codo para sacar adelante a la familia, a pesar de tener personalidades diametralmente opuestas.
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Based on a short story "Ward No. 6" by Anton Chekhov.
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A sad story about life and love as it told by Grigori Stepanovich Smirnov who is trying to find what caused the suicide of young 15 years old Volodya.
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The movie based on the story by Anton Chekhov
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This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.
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Los miembros de una familia de granjeros repiten las mismas líneas de diálogo mientras un estudiante se prepara para irse de su casa y estudiar; en una interminable fiesta de bodas los invitados no dejan de hablar maniáticamente mientras que el fantasma del novio interfiere en la ceremonia. (
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A neurotic and overly-presumptuous mother accuses her family's au pair of stealing a cherished heirloom, much to the chagrin of her husband.
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A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
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Danny vive en el 47 de una casa compartida. Obsesionado con los dilemas existenciales clásicos masculinos y los iconos que representan, Danny está intentando dar sentido a la extrañeza que produce el compartir su vida con completos extraños. Comenzando en el ambiente tropical de Brisbane, con una sobreabundancia de chicos, y una chica, Sam, Danny decide salvarse escribiendo una novela existencial. La llegada de Anya y un dilema del tipo 'Miami antivicio' relacionado con el alquiler, arroja su vida y, finalmente, la casa en la que vive, a la calle. 'House 48' está en Melbourne. Danny se encuentra ante una pesadilla kafkiana, donde toma el pulso a la ciudad con un par de detectives filosóficos y una colección 'hardcore' de sus seguidores, que en el estado de Victoria, la policía tiene una tendencia a disparar para matar. Escapa a Sydney, a 'House 49', y Danny se encuentra con un estilo de vida hetero-fascista.
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Based on Anton Chekhov's play.
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A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose.
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Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) 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 (Teale), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
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Theatre Play
Se puede vivir toda una vida en un solo fin de semana...
Theatre Play
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm.
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Adaptación de "Tío Vania", de Chejov, ambientada en Australia en los años veinte y que obtuvo buenas críticas en USA. Alexander y su reciente y bella esposa Deborah abandonan el ambiente cosmopolita de Londres y regresan a la vida del campo en Australia para vivir con Jack, hermano de Alexander. Pero una vez allí tanto Jack como el mujeriego médico local se encaprichan de Deborah...
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El grupo de teatro de André Gregory se dispone a interpretar El Tio Vania, la famosa obra de Anton Chejov, en una adaptación del dramaturgo David Mamet. El teatro está abandonado y la compañía ha prescindido de la ambientación y del vestuario. Mientras, Louis Malle registra todo con la cámara. Es un planteamiento sencillo que introduce en la magia del teatro, donde los atores pasan de un momento a otro de ser personas a ser personajes, y donde cada línea de diálogo se vive con una intensidad imposible de encontrar en cualquier otro sitio
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El grupo de teatro de André Gregory se dispone a interpretar El Tio Vania, la famosa obra de Anton Chejov, en una adaptación del dramaturgo David Mamet. El teatro está abandonado y la compañía ha prescindido de la ambientación y del vestuario. Mientras, Louis Malle registra todo con la cámara. Es un planteamiento sencillo que introduce en la magia del teatro, donde los atores pasan de un momento a otro de ser personas a ser personajes, y donde cada línea de diálogo se vive con una intensidad imposible de encontrar en cualquier otro sitio
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A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.
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The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Anna Kohler, Beatrice Roth, Ron Vawter, and Willem Dafoe. This presentation of the 2003 production of BRACE UP!, designed by Ken Kobland and LeCompte, incorporates close-up recordings of the performers simultaneously with continuous wide-angle footage.
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The plague of civil war reached a provincial town, where several noble families were stuck waiting for a train. The joy of hope was replaced by despair, fear of the future. No one knew how much was allotted to him in this life. Emotions boil, passions run high, hearts break, will is destroyed, pride is trampled. Each of the heroes survives in his own way, but all fell low. Ah, if you only knew when the long-awaited train would arrive in Moscow ...
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An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, who does not return his ardor.
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After the French defeat of 1870, Julia took three years to love Alexander, with whom she married for her fortune. Alas, when Julia wants to declare his love to her husband, the latter confesses to him that his passion is extinguished.
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An adaptation of a classic "Three Sisters" play by Anton Chekhov.
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Man 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.
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A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
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Romano Patroni es un hombre de origen humilde que consiguió terminar en la Universidad sus estudios de Arquitectura. Casado con una rica heredera, años después conoce en un balneario a una joven rusa, Ana. Creyéndola el amor de su vida, el desventurado Romano se dedicará a seguirla por toda Rusia... "Ojos negros", basada en relatos de Anton Chejov, es un nostálgico canto a la belleza de Rusia. La extraordinaria creación de Marcello Mastroianni le reportó numerosos galardones, entre ellos el Premio al Mejor Actor en Cannes y la nominación al Oscar.
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A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, the student was to spend 15 years in solitary confinement.
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Widow Jelena has let it be known she does not want to meet any men and is upset when Grigorij shows up and wants to speak to her about something.
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One day the landlord Smirnov demands the widow Popova to pay an old debt which her husband left. She has no money at home and begs Smirnov to wait. The polite conversation turns quickly into an argument. Popova fetches the pistols. Smirnov realizes now that he’s in love with Popova. He confesses his love.
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Chekhov'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.
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The film is based on the short story by Anton Chekhov. Gentlemen invited to tea by the local landowner, a retired major-General von Rebbeca.. Lieutenant ryabovich lost in the darkness, in the rooms of the old house, suddenly kissed a stranger.
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A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.
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Ироническая комедия, которая соединила в себе ранние рассказы A.П.Чехова "Предложение", "Свадьба", "Юбилей" и другие. Целая плеяда ведущих актеров советского кинематографа позволяет с легкостью окунуться в чеховские времена и смеяться от души над жизненными ситуациями.
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The funny story of fish lover Abdulali.
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The story about one teacher of the Greek language in the gymnasium - Byelikov. He was so distrustful that he turned his whole life into a "case existence".
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Film-ballet
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Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a walthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherrt orchard and dividing the estate into plats that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
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Alexey 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.
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Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The friend, a naval officer, takes a job as a valet in the general's son's house. While he plots his revenge, the son has an affair with a woman whom the valet begins to love. She is discarded after becoming pregnant, and the valet has his own troubles; he has contracted tuberculosis. Sick and unable to follow through on his plans for vengeance, he leaves for France with the pregnant woman hoping to declare his love and seek a cure for his illness.
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A writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, all of which are written in the style of Chekhov.
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The film is based on the stories Anton Chekhov. It is a tribute to the actor Boris Andreyev. He plays a major role that keeps up for the duration of the film. Lively and intelligent Valery Spout largely mitigates underline the drama of the protagonist, while Michael Sveta's role, though small, is bright and memorable.
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An aristocrat falls for a young woman who brings him ruin. Based on Chekhov's story. AKA A Hunting Accident, The Shooting Party.
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A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.
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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.
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A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the story takes place. Impressed by his rebellious spirit and clever remarks, he tends to spend more time with him while also indulging in meditation, only to be ridiculed by his fellow colleagues. Based on a Chekhov's work of the same title.
Novel
Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.
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Theatre Play
Mikhail llega con su esposa a la casa de campo de un amigo para pasar el fin de semana y allí se encuentra con la mujer a la que amó de joven. Este encuentro le hace añorar su juventud y las ilusiones perdidas.
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Un joven escritor se encuentra atrapado entre su madre (Laura Betti), una horrible actriz, y el conocimiento de que sólo tiene un talento mediocre como dramaturgo y un carácter casi nulo. Después de que el joven sufra la pérdida de su amante a manos de su padrastro, también novelista, su autoestima queda tan destrozada que se suicida. Adaptación italiana de La gaviota del dramaturgo ruso Anton Chéjov.
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A young woman is living with her mother at the end of a dead-end street. The young woman notices that a man standing in the street stares into her room every day. After a while, she gets used to his presence and falls in love with him. As the mysterious man slowly enters the girls household and becomes a friend. However the girl finds that the man is a government agent sent to arrest his brother who is a political activist hiding from the government.
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Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.
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Original Story
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The lost dog Kashtanka is picked up on the street by circus actor Monsieur Georges. He gives her a new name - Aunt and, having prepared a number with her, begins to perform in the circus. Their performances are very successful.
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Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Nina (Blythe Danner). He arranges the first performance to take place at a country estate, but the presence of his self-absorbed mother (Lee Grant) and her novelist lover disrupts the production.
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A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen. At the luncheon is Khrushchov, a passionate environmentalist, called "the Wood Demon" by all, in love with Sonya and she with him, but neither will say it. Two weeks later there's a family meeting at the professor's estate; two weeks after that, a supper at the cabin of Dyadin, who's cheerful to all. George, Helen, Sonya, and Khrushchov are each suffocating. Can any of them take action?
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Olga, 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.
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An Artist's Story concerns the confrontation of ideas between Anton, a young landscape painter, and Lydia, a young aristocratic girl who devotes her life to good works.
Short Story
A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
Writer
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
Novel
Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and boredom of life, clerk Laevsky is longing to break the depraved circle of his existence. His moral antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...
Writer
Office clerk Mamad breaks his ethics and steals a pack of paper from his office while preparing for his seventh child’s birth. Haunted by guilt, an opportunity to confess seems to always elude him.
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Ken Loach production, shown as one segment of BBC2's arts programme 'Full House'.
Novel
A 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.
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Story
A 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".
Theatre Play
Basada en la obra "La gaviota" de Antón Chéjov.
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Lyrical story about a young double bass musician who travels with fellow musicians out of town to play at a wedding in a summer house. A thief and a girl, a bride at a wedding, will unexpectedly determine his fate. In a film without dialogue, music has a special role.
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Book
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The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to seduce; the women around him simply find him irresistibly attractive, and he is only too happy to go along. The play predates the realism of Chekhov's later works in its desjointedness, but many of its scenes show the seeds of brilliance that would eventually emerge.
Short Story
Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".
Novel
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Uncle Vanya is a tragic comedy of lost hopes, stifled passions and wasted lives. Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the scholar, Serabryakov, who has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, ho does not return his ardor.
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Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor's first wife, who manages the farm estate, and the local Doctor Astrov, both fall under Yelena's spell, while complaining of the endless ennui of their provincial existence. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Sofya, the Professor's daughter by his first wife, who works to keep the estate going with her uncle Vanya, meanwhile suffers from lack of esteem over what she sees as her own lack of beauty, and from an unrequited love for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a head when the Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sofya's home, to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.
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Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov
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En una pequeña ciudad rusa, los huérfanos Prozoroff (Olga, Irina, Masha y Andrei) sueñan con regresar a su hogar en Moscú. Mientras tanto viven entre matrimonios infelices, amantes militares furtivos y trabajos solitarios. Cuando Andrei se casa con una chica de provincias llamada Natasha y ésta toma el control familiar, el refugio privado de las hermanas llega a la destrucción.
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Based on the novel of the same name by Anton Chekhov.
Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.
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In 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.
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A 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.
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Adaptación de la célebre obra de Chejov. Describe la visita que una actriz madura hace a su hermano y a su hijo en su casa de campo. Le acompaña para la ocasión un afamado novelista, de la que se enamora una jovencita que vive cerca del lugar.
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Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...
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A story of a woman trying to find her happiness through a difficult life.
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A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
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In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother 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.
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Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.
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Tres cuentos de terror con mujeres amenazadas por llamadas misteriosas, vampiros en las estepas rusas y sangrientas venganzas: "El teléfono": una mujer, que vive sola, comienza a recibir inquietantes llamadas. Al otro lado del teléfono, una voz masculina profiere amenazas de muerte y de deseo. Aunque, en principio, todo parece una broma... "Los Wurdalak": el viajero ha encontrado el cadáver de un hombre apuñalado. También una sombría mansión y, entre sus habitantes, una bella mujer. Y esa noche se cumple el plazo: si el señor del lugar regresa pasada la medianoche vendrá convertido en Wurdalak, horrible ser sin vida que se alimenta de la sangre de sus víctimas... "La gota de agua": una anciana espiritista muere mientras intentaba comunicarse con el Más Allá. La enfermera que la atendió roba un valioso anillo al cadáver. A partir de ese momento sufrirá la venganza de la difunta...
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Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
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Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from peasant stock, and one day his family decides it would be best for him to go live with his uncle in the city. The only problem is that the city is all the way across the Russian steppes, and at this time in history, that arduous journey could only be undertaken by horse and carriage. Reminiscent of the American pioneer wagon trains heading West, the tale lacks any attacks from hostile forces but is filled with charming vignettes. In one part of the journey, the boy comes across some fishermen along a river, harpooning their catch for the day. In another segment, he is entertained when some folk dancers do a lively show. But in general, it is too long and unmomentous a journey to hold attention well for nearly two hours.
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Class distinctions, inferiority complexes, and social climbing abound as the bride, groom, and their families gather for a wedding banquet. There's a rumor that a general will be in attendance, secured by a real estate agent at one family's expense. After an argument about electricity, which exposes both the ignorance and the combativeness of the bride, the general does arrive, ear trumpet in hand. He commands the attention of all. But will tranquility last until the group photo?
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A famous painter lives in idleness in the estate of the landlord Belokurov. Once he meets a family of Volchaninov's living in the neighborhood, in which there are two daughters: the eldest (Lydia), a serious and strict girl with convictions, who tries to help ordinary people and doesn't like the artist very much for his idleness, and the youngest (Zhenya or Misyus), which soon takes a great interest in the artist. The painter also falls in love with Zhenya, but Lydia destroys their happiness ...
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Adaptación del relato de Anton Chejov. Durante un fin de semana en Yalta, el banquero moscovita Dimitri Gurov conoce a una joven que pasea con su perro. Ella es Anna Sergeyovna, una mujer atrapada en un matrimonio sin amor. Dimitri también es infeliz en su matrimonio. Se inicia un romance, que se corta con el fin de su estancia en Yalta. Dimitri pasa todo el invierno con la idea de volver a ver a Anna, desesperado va a buscarla, pero entonces surge la pregunta: ¿asumirán su relación o la mantendrán como una serie de encuentros a escondidas?
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This 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.
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In formal attire, Ivan Vassilievich Lomov calls upon his neighbor, the bluff Stefan Stefanovich Chubukov. Chubukov fears that the prolix Lomov has come to borrow money, but is delighted when Lemov finally gets to the point and proposes to marry Chubukov's daughter Natalia. Without telling her why, Chubukov sends Natalia into the drawing room, and Lemov begins an even more roundabout proposal. Before he can make his intentions clear, Natalia takes exception to something he says, and an argument ensues. Lemov works himself into a lather. Will a funeral be required? Perhaps a neutral conversational topic, such as hunting dogs, can ease the couple past their disagreement.
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Shot in Paris in December 1958, La Sorcière (The Witch) is Żuławski’s student film and directorial debut. The story is based on a short story by Anton Chekhov. Currently this short film is stored in IDHEC's archives and is unavailable for a large public.
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A film about an unhappy man who catches his wife with a lover. He leaves to buy a gun, while plotting to kill the wife and the lover. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.
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A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.
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Nadya Shumin is engaged to be married to Andrey Andreitch, the son of a local priest. Nadya lives on her grandmother's estate with her mother, "a fair-haired woman tightly laced in, with a pince-nez, and diamonds on every finger." While Nadya is a woman with a great desire for education and independence, Andrey is a friendly but rather vacuous and totally unmotivated man. Sasha, an ill and impoverished young man who is spending the summer on the estate has long been considered part of the family. Sasha implores Nadya to follow her heart - to go to Petersburg and attend the University.
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Osip 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.
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Policemen investigate a murder and find out astonishing facts.
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Tres historias sobre el matrimonio. Un hombre rico contrae matrimonio con una chica. Un capitán se enamora de una viuda. El anfitrión de un convite es confundido con un general.
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Tres historias sobre el matrimonio. Un hombre rico contrae matrimonio con una chica. Un capitán se enamora de una viuda. El anfitrión de un convite es confundido con un general.
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Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.
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College assessor Miguev, returning home, finds a foundling at the porch. Having mistaken him for his son from the former maid Agnia, the frightened Miguev, in turn, is trying to toss the baby, but to no avail. Tired dad decides to confess to his wife Anna Filippovna, and, meanwhile, the true parents begin to search for their child left “for a second” at the threshold of a respectable house ...
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Pappalardo es un funcionario archivero, sin estudios y padre de familia numerosa, que no logra ascender en su escalafón a pesar de que se esfuerza. La dificultad para encontrar un expediente que reclama un engolado maestro, le pone en apuros ante su superior, quien empieza a acumular elementos en su contra, que podrían costarle incluso la pérdida del trabajo.
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"Román s basou" is another short by master a stop-motion puppet-animator Jiri Trnka. The story is based on Anton Chekhovs story "Roman s Kontrabasom". Princess Bibulova decides to go fishing along the river while not far away a bass player leaves his two companions to go for a swim.
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Ambientada en Rusia tras la revolución bolchevique (1917). El anciano Conde Wolsky (Edward Everett Horton) va a la editorial que dirige la joven Nadena Kalenin (Anna Lee), pero ella, en un principio, se niega a recibirlo. Sin embargo, accede a hablar con él cuando se entera de la tentadora oferta que quiere hacerle: la publicación de las memorias de Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff (George Sanders).
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According to the eponymous vaudeville by A.P. Chekhov. Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not going to marry at all.
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A short movie based on Anton Chekhov novels.
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The 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”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.
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Anton Chekhov’s one-act comic play throws Elena Ivanonva Popova, a land-owning widow with dimples, on her cheeks up against Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a middle-aged landowner. He arrives at her house claiming her late husband owed him money and he wants the debt repaid immediately. They argue and almost have a duel over the debt before they realise that they have fallen in love with each other.
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A romantic comedy based on an Anton Chekhov play of the same name. A young man comes to collect a debt owed to him by the widow Popova's late husband. They argue , duel with pistols , and fall in love while all of this is witnessed by Popova's servant Luka.
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From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with "Chiny I Lyudi" ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, "Anna On The Neck", "Death Of A Petty Official" and "Chameleon" were assembled for the silent screen.
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La primera coproducción germano-soviética procesó once cuentos de Chejov. En los créditos iniciales se lee: "Antes de la guerra, la gente de Rusia vivía en el interior de Rusia. Las 'bendiciones' de la civilización no les habían llegado. De esas personas superfluas que viven en una pequeña ciudad rusa habla esta película". Se trata de una farsa provincial idílica con acentos trágicamente conmovedores, exageraciones grotescas y humor grosero, caracterizada por una humanidad conciliadora. La película se creyó perdida durante mucho tiempo y se reconstruyó en 1978. (Eddie Constanti)
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Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.
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Based on the Chekhov story "In the Dark."
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Princess Bibulova decides to go fishing along the river, while not far away, a musician leaves his two companions to go for a swim. Soon afterwards, the princess also goes swimming. While neither swimmer is looking, two thieves lurking on the riverbank steal their clothes, leaving the musician and the princess in a puzzling and embarrassing situation.
