Released:
1981-10-13

Overview:
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find 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.

Director:
Richard Eyre

Runtime:
2h 10min

Genre:
Drama, TV Movie

• Cast:
• 
  Judi Dench
  as
  Mme. Ranevsky
• 
  Bill Paterson
  as
  Lopakhin
• 
  Anton Lesser
  as
  Trofimov
• 
  Harriet Walter
  as
  Varya
• 
  Suzanne Burden
  as
  Anya