Anton ChekhovFilmography

The Sisters

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Maria Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson, Erika Christensen, Tony Goldwyn, Elizabeth Banks

Synopsis: Screenwriter Richard Alfieri and director Arthur Allan Siedelman adapt Anton Chekhov's classic stage play The Three Sisters to the screen in this film starring Mary Stuart Masterson, Maria Bello, and Erika Christensen as the titular siblings. Upon departing from Charleston, SC, to further their Read More

3 Days of Rain

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Don Meredith, Peter Falk, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari, Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: Writer/director Michael Meredith's ambitious first feature, Three Days of Rain, weaves together a large number of tales, loosely based on short stories by Anton Chekhov, and set in present-day Cleveland. Thunder (Michael Santoro) is a struggling tile-maker, an artisan whose leaky roof threatens to Read More

Ragin

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Alexei Guskov, Alexandr Galibin, Dmitri Muliar, Agrippina Steklova, Nataliya Nikulenko

La Petite Lili

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Nicole Garcia, Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ludivine Sagnier, Robinson Stévenin

Synopsis: Anton Chekhov's The Seagull receives an updated adaptation in this drama from veteran French filmmaker Claude Miller. Mado (Nicole Garcia) is a successful actress who is spending the summer at her country estate with her boyfriend, Brice (Bernard Giraudeau), a noted filmmaker who directed her Read More

Mansion by the Lake

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Malini Fonseka, Vasanthi Chaturani, Ravindra Randeniya, Sanath Gunathilaka, Paboda Sandeepani

Synopsis: Veteran Sri Lankan writer/director Lester James Peries' Mansion by the Lake is loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. In the late '80s, after living in London for many years, Sujata (Malini Fonseka), her brother Gunapala (Sanath Gunathilaka), and her daughter Aruni (Paboda Read More

The Cherry Orchard

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Katrin Cartlidge, Owen Teale, Frances de la Tour

Synopsis: Renowned Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis wrote and directed this adaptation of the classic final drama by playwright Anton Chekhov, set in 1900. Lyubov Ranevskaya (Charlotte Rampling) left Russia to escape troubling memories of the death of her son. Now her family is riddled with debt and Read More

August

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Kate Burton, Leslie Phillips, Gawn Grainger, Rhian Morgan

Synopsis: Anthony Hopkins made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, recasting the action in Hopkins' homeland of Wales. Ieuan Davies (Anthony Hopkins) has devoted most of his life to managing the estate of Professor Blathwaite (Leslie Phillips); while he's generally Read More

Vanya on 42nd Street

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Wallace Shawn, Brooke Smith, Andre Gregory, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Madhur Jaffrey, Jerry Mayer, George Gaynes, Phoebe Brand, Lynn Cohen

Synopsis: In the late 1980s, noted theatrical director Andre Gregory assembled a group of friends and actors and began rehearsing a new translation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by David Mamet, not with any specific performance in mind but as a way of exploring the beauty and precise construction of Read More

Tri Sestry

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Yelena Korikova, Otto Sander, Kseniya Kachalina, Olga Belyaeva, Dmitriy Roshchin

Synopsis: In this film, director Sergei Solovyov provides a unique presentation of Chekhov's famous play. Rather than presenting the whole work, he opts to present only highlights from each scene. The photography, set designs, and sound-track of the film are notable. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Country Life

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Sam Neill, Greta Scacchi, John Hargreaves, Kerry Fox, Michael Blakemore

Synopsis: This Australian drama has been adapted from Chekov's Uncle Vanya. It is set in post WW I Australia at a time when the Aussies were getting ready to break away from England. After his father's death, Jack Dickens sacrificed his literary aspirations to run the family farm. He lives in the old farm Read More

Swan Song

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Richard Briers, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Fresh from the success of Henry V and Dead Again, British actor/director Kenneth Branagh recharged his creative batteries with a 23-minute short subject. Swan Song is a faithful adaptation of a one-act play by Anton Chekhov. John Gielgud stars as an aging actor who, while sitting alone in a Read More

A Harom Nover

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Eszter Csakanyi, Ildiko Toth, Eniko Borcsok

Synopsis: While waiting to be shipped back to Russia following the fall of communism in Hungary in the late 1980s, the military men and their families enact the story of Anton Chekhov's famous play The Three Sisters in modern guise. Basically, the story concerns the thwarted dreams and aspirations (romantic Read More

Kasba

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Mita Vashisht, Manohari Singh, Shatrughan Sinha

Synopsis: Maniram (Mandar Singh) is good at cheating. As a smuggler, he's been cheating the government for years. What's more, he's been cheating his customers as well. These days, he's been letting his daughter Tejo (Mita Vashisht) take care of more and more of his business. He doesn't know it, but she's Read More

Uncle Vanya

Crew: Play Author

Actors: David Warner, Ian Holm, Rachel Kempson, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ian Bannen, Roger Hammond

Cherny Monakh

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Tatyana Drubich, Petr Fomenko, Lyubov Selyutina, Viktor Shternberg

Synopsis: This drama about a man's obsession with a ghost known as the black monk is taken from the classic novel by Anton Checkhov. Korvin (Stanislav Lyubshin) encounters the spirit, and the monk advises him to live life to the fullest. The monk, who is never seen, assures Korvin he is not mad. Korvin Read More

Dark Eyes

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Yelena Safonova, Pina Cei, Vsevolod Larionov

Synopsis: Oci Ciornie was an international co-production tailored for Marcello Mastroianni. It received good reviews in Italy and France, and Mastroianni was awarded "Best Actor" at the Cannes Film Festival. However, some in Russia felt that director Mikhalkov (who previously received wide acclaim for Read More

Hôtel de France

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Laurent Grévill, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Vincent Perez, Laura Benson, Thibault de Montalembert

Synopsis: Noted stage director Patrice Chereau adds his stylistic flair to this drama loosely taken from a story by Anton Chekhov. A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The Read More

Neveroyatnoe Pari, Ili Istinnoe Proisshestvie, Blagopoluchno Zavershivsheesya

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Boris Plotnikov, Alexei Petrenko, Irina Muravyeva, Mikhail Kozakov, Stanislav Sadalsky

Anyuta

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Ekaterina Maksimova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Gali Abaydulov, John Markovsky, Anatoliy Gridin

Synopsis: Full of humor and grace, this film is a ballet adaptation of the noted Anton Chekov story. Starring Ekaterina Maximova, this work features the finest dancers from the world-renowned Bolshoi, Kirov, and Maly ballet troupes. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cherry Orchard

Crew: Play Author

The Beneficiary

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: This depressing drama is taken from a short story by Anton Chekhov. The McCarthy family of County Galway in Ireland are poor until the father's favorite son comes home with a small fortune. They become members of the landed gentry until it is discovered the money has been forged. A second son's Read More

Rasskaz O Neizvestnom Cheloveke

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Yevgeniya Simonova, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Georgi Taratorkin, Lyudmila Zaytseva, Pavel Kadochnikov

Synopsis: Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, this drama centers around a desire for revenge and the tragedy of a star-crossed love. After a general ruins some men under him in punishment for a rebellion, a friend of the broken men vows revenge. The friend, a naval officer, takes a job as a valet in Read More

Pavilion VI

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Zoran Radmilovic, Pavle Vujisic, Ljuba Tadic

Synopsis: This is an uneven and slow-paced drama with a good performance by lead Slobodan Perovic as a lonely, arrogant doctor. The doctor lives in a Russian village far off the beaten path of civilization. He prefers hanging out by himself in his home, in his office, or on the way to either place. He also Read More

Il Gabbiano

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Laura Betti, Giulio Brogi, Pamela Villoresi, Remo Girone

Synopsis: A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother (Laura Betti) and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character. After the young man in this story suffers the loss of his mistress to his self-satisfied novelist stepfather, his Read More

An Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Alexander Kalyagin, Yelena Solovey, Yevgenya Glushenko, Antonina Shuranova, Yuri Bogatyrev

Synopsis: 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 elaborate as a palace. A much-favored place for gatherings of intellectuals, dachas are a favored literary setting. In this film, adapted by Nikita Mikhailkov from Anton Chekhov's Read More

Step

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Oleg Kuznetsov, Vladimir Sedov, Nikolai Trofimov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Ivan Lapikov

Synopsis: Based on a story by Anton Chekhov, this film by renowned director Sergei Bonderchuk (best known for his film War and Peace) basks in the vast and visually magnificent qualities of life on the steppes of southern Russia in the era before the Russian Revolution. The story revolves around the journey Read More

Moy Laskovy i Nezhny Zver

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Galina Belyayeva, Oleg Yankovsky, Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Markov, Svetlana Toma

Synopsis: No relation to the 1985 British film of the same name, the Russian The Shooting Party was based on an Anton Chekhov story. Most of the film takes place on the estate of Count Volsky, where the lovely Olga is forced into a loveless marriage with Volsky's overseer. Standing wistfully on the Read More

Plokhoy Khoroshyi Chelovek

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotsky, Lyudmila Maksakova, Anatoli Papanov, Georgiy Korolchuk

Synopsis: The Russian-language title of this film based on Chekhov's short-story The Duel, translates as "The Bad Good Man." This film is treasured by Russian audiences because it contains one of the very few screen appearances of the beloved star Vladimir Vysotsky (he plays Von Koren). Boasting a fine Read More

Chaika

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Alla Demidova, Vladimir Chetverikov, Nikolai Plotnikov, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Valentina Telichkina

Synopsis: The 19th-century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's classic drama The Seagull continued a theatrical movement known as "realism," which focused on the everyday crises and foibles of more believably real people. In order to perform the roles of the new dramatic movement properly, the Actors Theater Read More

Dyadya Vanya

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Sergei Bondarchuk, Irina Kupchenko, Irina Miroshnichenko, Vladimir Zeldin

Synopsis: In this drama, an adaptation of Chekhov's play, a rural doctor falls in love with an unavailable beauty while plying his trade. It is frustrating for the old man, because he realizes that his devotion to medicine has caused him to miss out on many of life's pleasures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Uncle Vanya

Crew: Play Author

Tsvety Zapozdalye

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Irina Lavrentyeva, Alexander Lazarev, Valery Zolotukhin, Olga Zhizneva, Alexandr Khanov

Synopsis: Belated Flowers is a Russian romantic melodrama based on the works of Anton Chekhov. Because of the huge class differences that separate them, a princess cannot not declare her love for a handsome young doctor she has met; he used to be a serf on her family's estate. The doctor, meanwhile, has Read More

An Event

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: 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 way to the fair where they hope to sell their horse. En route they are chased through the dark forest by a ravenous wolf. Somehow they make it to the ferry that will take Read More

Three Sisters

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Pumell, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's three upper-class Prozorov sisters -- Masha, Olga, and Irina -- come no closer to their dream of returning to Moscow in director Laurence Olivier's 1970 film version of Three Sisters than they did in Chekhov's original 1900 play. This melancholy classic about Read More

The Three Sisters

Crew: Play Author

The Sea Gull

Crew: Play Author

Actors: James Mason, Vanessa Redgrave, Simone Signoret, David Warner, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: This is one of several film versions of the classic play by Anton Chekhov. The depressing tale of unrequited love begins when an aging actress Arkadina (Simone Signoret) and her arrogant writer companion Trigorin (James Mason) travel to a small Russian town to visit her brother, an ailing public Read More

Ionych

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Ionytch is an idealistic young doctor who is infatuated with Katya, the lovely daughter of the wealthy Turkin family. The eccentric Turkin family delights in throwing parties and Ionytch is often in attendance. Katya has inherited her father's penchant for practical jokes, never taking the young Read More

The Three Sisters

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Geraldine Page, Kim Stanley, Shelley Winters, Sandy Dennis, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: The Three Sisters is a literal transcription of the 1965 Actor's Theatre production of the Chekhov drama. Kim Stanley, Geraldine Page and Shelley Winters play the title characters, all members of a wealthy but unhappy 19th-century Russian family. Stuck in a forsaken garrison town by their Read More

Tri Sestry

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Lyubov Sokolova, Margarita Volodina, Tatyana Malchenko, Leonid Gubanov, Alla Larionova

Synopsis: This drama is adapted from Chekhov's famous play and chronicles the dreary lives of a late Russian colonel's three daughters as they struggle to survive during the early 1900s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Duel

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In this drama, an adaptation of Chekhov's "The Duel," a bored young man can find nothing that interests him. Even his mistress has become dull to him. His lover's husband dies and now the fellow finds himself expected to marry her. Unwilling to place himself deeper into an already insurmountable Read More

La Steppa

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Charles Vanel, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from peasant stock, and one day his family decides it would be best for him to go live with his uncle in the city. The only problem is that the city is all the Read More

Uncle Vanya

Crew: Play Author

Synopsis: This version of Chekov's classic play was recorded at the 1963 Chichester Festival. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cherry Orchard

Crew: Play Author

Three Tales of Chekhov

Crew: Play Author, Short Story Author

Synopsis: This effective compilation film covers three short stories by famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov. The first story, "Anyuta," is a look at misery in a decrepit hotel. The second tale, "A Vengeance," is a biting satire about an older man married to a young woman who seeks retribution against a man Read More

Dom S Mezoninom

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Sergei S. Yakovlev, Ninel Myshkova, Larisa Gordeychik, Olga Zhizneva, Yuri Leonidov

Synopsis: In this drama, set in the 19th-century, a painter of landscapes sees a young woman on a nearby estate and immediately falls in love. Unfortunately his revolutionary opinions meet with disapproval from her older sister and she sends her sister away. This breaks the heart of the painter who did not Read More

Dama S Sobachkoy

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Alexei Batalov, Iya Savvina, Ala Chostakova, Panteleymon Krymov, Nina Alisova, Yuri Medvedev

Synopsis: The lady of the title is beautiful Anna (Iya Savvina), who is vacationing in turn-of-the-century Yalta. Each day, Anna walks her dog...and each day, she is worshipped from afar by Moscow banker Dmitri (Alexsei Batalov). Despite the fact that both are married, Anna and Dmitri embark upon an affair. Read More

Uncle Vanya

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Franchot Tone, George Voskovec, Clarence Derwent, Dolores Dorn, Gerald Hiken, Peggy McCay, Mary Perry

Synopsis: Using his own money, actor Franchot Tone mounted this courageous film version of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. The cast is the same as the one seen in Tone's stage production of 1956, with one exception: Signe Hassso, who'd played Elena on stage, is replaced by Tone's then-wife, Dolores Dorn-Heft. Read More

Il Segno di Venere

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica, Raf Vallone, Peppino De Filippo

Synopsis: Il Segno di Venera (The Sign of Venus) offers an earthier Sophia Loren than American audiences would later become accustomed to. Agnese (Loren) has no trouble attracting men, which is more than can be said for her plain-Jane friend Cesira (Franca Valeri). The two girls embark on a search for an Read More

Poprygunya

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yevgeny Teterin, Anatoliy Aleksin

Synopsis: The Russian-made Grasshopper is based on a story by Anton Chekhov. The characters are divided into two camps: A group of artistically inclined "butterflies," and a team of stone-serious scientists. The film tries to prove that the phrase "Wasted Time" is relative. The artistic types squander their Read More

Shvedskaya Spichka

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Alexei Gribov, Andrei Popov, Mikhail Yanshin, Marina Kuznetsova, Mikhail Nazvanov

Anna Na Sheye

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Anna Larionova, Alexandr Sashin-Nikolsky, Petya Maltsev, Sasha Metelkin, Vladimir Vladislavsky, Mikhail Zharov, Alexandr Vertinsky

Synopsis: 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 Anna (A. Larienova), a woman born into poverty but with a determination to leave it behind. The young Anna decides to marry for gain and not for love when she hooks up with Read More

Summer Storm

Crew: Play Author

Actors: George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Anna Lee, Edward Everett Horton, Hugo Haas

Synopsis: Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged Russian civil servant (Hugo Haas). Darnell becomes the object of the affections of her husband's employer, a lecherous count (Edward Everett Horton Read More

Svadba

Crew: Play Author

Actors: Vera Maretskaya, Alexei Gribov, Zoya Fedorova, Osip Abdulov, Faina Ranevskaya, Erast Garin

Yubiley

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Viktor Stanitsyn, Olga Androvskaya, Vasiliy Toporkov, Anastasiya Zueva

Synopsis: A uncommonly modest effort from Russian "epic" director Vladimir Petrov, the 40-minute Jubilee is adapted from a play by Anton Chekhov. The story concerns a pompous bank director named Shipuchin (Victor Stanitsin), who makes elaborate preparations to celebrate the 15th anniversary of his firm. His Read More

Medved

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Olga Androvskaya, Mikhail Zharov, Ivan Pelttser, Konstantin Sorokin

Synopsis: This Russian comedy-drama runs a mere 43 minutes -- just long enough to do justice to the one-act Anton Chekhov play on which it was based. O. Androvska plays Elena, a headstrong widow who refuses to honor a promise made by her husband to neighboring landowner Smirnov (M. Zharov). It is Smirnov's Read More