Movies: Anton Chekhov

  • 2015
    Three Sisters

    Three Sisters (2015)

    Three Sisters

    3.82015HD

    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 ...

    Three Sisters
  • 1978
    The Good Doctor

    The Good Doctor (1978)

    The Good Doctor

    0.51978HD

    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....

    The Good Doctor
  • 1966
    The Three Sisters

    The Three Sisters (1966)

    The Three Sisters

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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 dissati...

    The Three Sisters
  • 1960
    Les trois soeurs

    Les trois soeurs (1960)

    Les trois soeurs

    01960HD

    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...

    Les trois soeurs
  • 2013
    Hollywood Seagull

    Hollywood Seagull (2013)

    Hollywood Seagull

    02013HD

    An adaptation of the play by Anton Chekhov....

    Hollywood Seagull
  • 1929
    Ranks and People

    Ranks and People (1929)

    Ranks and People

    5.61929HD

    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...

    Ranks and People
  • 2014
    Ottaal

    Ottaal (2014)

    Ottaal

    7.82014HD

    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, Valiyappa...

    Ottaal
  • 1973
    The Duel

    The Duel (1973)

    The Duel

    5.71973HD

    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 ant...

    The Duel
  • 1992
    Swan Song

    Swan Song (1992)

    Swan Song

    6.81992HD

    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....

    Swan Song
  • 1970
    Family Happiness

    Family Happiness (1970)

    Family Happiness

    4.71970HD

    Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov...

    Family Happiness
  • 1963
    Uncle Vanya

    Uncle Vanya (1963)

    Uncle Vanya

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    Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival....

    Uncle Vanya
  • 1990
    Three Years

    Three Years (1990)

    Three Years

    6.71990HD

    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....

    Three Years
  • 2004
    About Love

    About Love (2004)

    About Love

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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....

    About Love
  • 1968
    The Sea Gull

    The Sea Gull (1968)

    The Sea Gull

    6.21968HD

    Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century....

    The Sea Gull
  • 2009
    Ivanov

    Ivanov (2009)

    Ivanov

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    A drama based on a classic short story by Anton Chekhov....

    Ivanov
  • 1994
    A Golden Ring, a Bouquet of Scarlet Roses

    A Golden Ring, a Bouquet of Scarlet Roses (1994)

    A Golden Ring, a Bouquet of Scarlet Roses

    61994HD

    The eldest son, who left for St. Petersburg, where he works as a detective, comes to the family of a crooked merchant and shopkeeper Grigory Tsybukin. Parents decide to marry him - his son is already 28 years old. They find a poor, but beautiful, cle...

    A Golden Ring, a Bouquet of Scarlet Roses
  • 1996
    August

    August (1996)

    August

    41996HD

    Set in 1890s North Wales over a long, hot August weekend, the Victorian calm of a household is suddenly upset with the arrival of a London couple who impose their city ways and thoughts on the more rurally based family. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov...

    August
  • 1954
    The Safety Match

    The Safety Match (1954)

    The Safety Match

    5.81954HD

    A man of big status disappears in a small provincial town. An old bored investigator and his young hyperactive assistant are on a trail of a bloody murderer....

    The Safety Match
  • 2007
    Afternoon

    Afternoon (2007)

    Afternoon

    6.32007HD

    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...

    Afternoon
  • 1983
    An Uneventful Story

    An Uneventful Story (1983)

    An Uneventful Story

    61983HD

    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...

    An Uneventful Story