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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Lyudmila Polyakova, Anna Kamenkova, Irina Mazurkevich, Maksim Sukhanov, Aleksandr Baluev, Aleksandra Nazarova
Crew: Yuri Grymov (Producer), Sergey Zernov (Producer), Olga Mikhailova (Writer), Anton Chekhov (Theatre Play), Yuri Grymov (Director of Photography), Vladimir Dashkevich (Music)
Country: Russia
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Studio: Gorky Film Studios
Runtime: 133 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jun 12, 2017
IMDb: 10
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