Released:
2017-06-12

Overview:
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.

Director:
Yuri Grymov

Runtime:
2h 13min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Lyudmila Polyakova
• 
  Anna Kamenkova
• 
  Irina Mazurkevich
• 
  Maksim Sukhanov
• 
  Aleksandr Baluev