A willful demagogue (Courtney Patterson) fights to free a young woman from sexual slavery by confronting the cunning...
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2011
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Anton Chekhov authored his novella The Duel in 1891; one of the longest of the Russian master's tales, it pits an...
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2009
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A bizarre wager drives two men to the brink of madness in this Russian drama based in part on a story by Anton Chekhov....
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2008
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2006
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Writer/director Michael Meredith's ambitious first feature, Three Days of Rain, weaves together a large number of tales,...
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2005
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2005
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2004
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2003
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Renowned Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis wrote and directed this adaptation of the classic final drama by playwright Anton...
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1999
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Anthony Hopkins made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, recasting the action in...
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1996
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In the late 1980s, noted theatrical director Andre Gregory assembled a group of friends and actors and began rehearsing a new...
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1994
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This Australian drama has been adapted from Chekov's Uncle Vanya. It is set in post WW I Australia at a time when the...
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1994
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In this film, director Sergei Solovyov provides a unique presentation of Chekhov's famous play. Rather than presenting the...
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1994
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While waiting to be shipped back to Russia following the fall of communism in Hungary in the late 1980s, the military men and...
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1992
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1992
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1991
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Maniram (Mandar Singh) is good at cheating. As a smuggler, he's been cheating the government for years. What's more, he's...
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1991
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This drama about a man's obsession with a ghost known as the black monk is taken from the classic novel by Anton Checkhov....
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1989
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Oci Ciornie was an international co-production tailored for Marcello Mastroianni. It received good reviews in Italy and...
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1987
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Noted stage director Patrice Chereau adds his stylistic flair to this drama loosely taken from a story by Anton Chekhov. A...
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1987
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1984
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Full of humor and grace, this film is a ballet adaptation of the noted Anton Chekov story. Starring Ekaterina Maximova, this...
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1982
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This 1982 production by the Bolshoi Ballet finds the company interpreting the ballet The Seagull, adapted from Anton...
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1982
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1981
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Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed...
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1980
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This depressing drama is taken from a short story by Anton Chekhov. The McCarthy family of County Galway in Ireland are poor...
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1980
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This is an uneven and slow-paced drama with a good performance by lead Slobodan Perovic as a lonely, arrogant doctor. The...
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1978
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A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother (Laura Betti) and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent...
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1977
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No relation to the 1985 British film of the same name, the Russian The Shooting Party was based on an Anton Chekhov story....
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1977
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A dacha is a summer home for Russians, away from the hurly-burly of the city, and can be as primitive as a cabin or as...
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1977
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Based on a story by Anton Chekhov, this film by renowned director Sergei Bonderchuk (best known for his film War and Peace)...
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1977
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The Russian-language title of this film based on Chekhov's short-story The Duel, translates as "The Bad Good Man." This film...
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1973
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The 19th-century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's classic drama The Seagull continued a theatrical movement known as...
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1972
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In this drama, an adaptation of Chekhov's play, a rural doctor falls in love with an unavailable beauty while plying his...
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1971
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Belated Flowers is a Russian romantic melodrama based on the works of Anton Chekhov. Because of the huge class differences...
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1970
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1970
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This Russian tale is based on a short story by Anton Chekhov. It is the story of a farmer and his grandson who are on their...
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1970
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Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's three upper-class Prozorov sisters -- Masha, Olga, and Irina -- come no closer to their...
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1970
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1969
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Ionytch is an idealistic young doctor who is infatuated with Katya, the lovely daughter of the wealthy Turkin family. The...
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1968
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This is one of several film versions of the classic play by Anton Chekhov. The depressing tale of unrequited love begins when...
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1968
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1965
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This drama is adapted from Chekhov's famous play and chronicles the dreary lives of a late Russian colonel's three daughters...
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1965
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In this drama, an adaptation of Chekhov's "The Duel," a bored young man can find nothing that interests him. Even his...
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1964
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Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds....
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1963
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This version of Chekov's classic play was recorded at the 1963 Chichester Festival. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1963
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1962
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In this drama, set in the 19th-century, a painter of landscapes sees a young woman on a nearby estate and immediately falls...
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1961
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This effective compilation film covers three short stories by famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov. The first story, "Anyuta,"...
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1961
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The lady of the title is beautiful Anna (Iya Savvina), who is vacationing in turn-of-the-century Yalta. Each day, Anna walks...
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1959
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Using his own money, actor Franchot Tone mounted this courageous film version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. The cast is the...
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1958
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1955
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The Russian-made Grasshopper is based on a story by Anton Chekhov. The characters are divided into two camps: A group of...
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1955
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1954
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Based on a story by Anton Chekov, this standard Russian drama is set at the turn of the 20th century and relates the story of...
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1954
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Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as...
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1944
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A uncommonly modest effort from Russian "epic" director Vladimir Petrov, the 40-minute Jubilee is adapted from a play by...
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1944
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1944
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This Russian comedy-drama runs a mere 43 minutes -- just long enough to do justice to the one-act Anton Chekhov play on which...
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1938
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