Movies: Anton Chekhov

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...

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A year after the death of their father, life can begin again for Macha, Olga, Irina and their brother, Andrei. But the unpredictability of life destroys their hopes and certainties. The sisters of failed dreams now live in an idle city where everythi...

Based on Anton Chekhov's play....

A neurotic and overly-presumptuous mother accuses her family's au pair of stealing a cherished heirloom, much to the chagrin of her husband....

A comic play revealing people's empty ambitions and meaningless principles....

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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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In the 1800s, a bass player's attempts to woo a young woman lead to both parties being trapped in an awkward situation....

Musical teleplay based on A.P. Chekhov's vaudevilles "The Proposal" and "The Bear"....

Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov....

Based on the Chekhov story "In the Dark."...

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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-...

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Film-ballet...