Anton Chekhov

biography:
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian playwright and writer, whose plays received international acclaim, and who as a short-story writer is still regarded as virtually unmatched. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."

The son of a former serf, Chekhov started out supporting his family by writing popular comic sketches as a medicine student. While practicing as a doctor, he produced his first full-length play, Ivanov (1887). He took up serious themes with stories such as “The Steppe” (1888) and “A Dreary Story” (1889); later stories include “Ward Number Six” (1892), “The Black Monk” (1894) and “The Lady with the Dog” (1899). His play The Seagull (1896) was badly received until its successful revival in 1899 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre.  After this he converted his earlier work The Wood Demon (1889) into the universally acclaimed play Uncle Vanya (1897). To nurse his eventually fatal tuberculosis he moved to the Crimea, where he wrote his famous last plays, Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).

Escenario 0

overview: A unique project that will mix different disciplines to create an exceptional fusion between the performing and audiovisual arts.

original_name: Escenario 0

original_language: es

Softly from Paris

job: Original Story

overview: An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.

original_name: Série rose

original_language: fr

BBC Play of the Month

job: Theatre Play

overview: A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

original_name: BBC Play of the Month

Alta comedia

job: Story

original_name: Alta comedia

job: Novel

Úsměvy světa

job: Short Story

original_name: Úsměvy světa

original_language: cs

Chekhov and Co.

overview: Thirty short stories based on thirty stories by Chekhov.

original_name: Чехов и Ко°

original_language: ru

Racek

original_name: Racek

Theatre 625

overview: Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

original_name: Theatre 625

My Life

overview: Man is trying to find simple human happiness. He decides for himself the question of what this happiness consists of - wealth, high social status, or something else.

original_name: Моя жизнь

Folio

job: Book

overview:
Folio, a precursor to CBC's renowned fine-arts series Festival, aired for four years starting in 1956. The series showcased original dramas, music compositions, and ballets, many originating from diverse regions across Canada. Notable episodes featured Barry Morse in a new staging of MacBeth, along with performances by Canadian talents like Robert Goulet and Sharon Acker. One of the highlights included a musical adaptation of the beloved Canadian classic, Anne of Green Gables. Airing without sponsorship, Folio thrived until its conclusion in the fall of 1960.

Producers: Robert Allen, Harvey Hart, David Greene, Mario Prizek and Ronald Weyman.

original_name: Folio

ITV Playhouse

overview: ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

original_name: ITV Playhouse

NET Playhouse

overview: NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

original_name: NET Playhouse

Toonout

overview: Original animated shorts created by independent artists.

original_name: Toonout

Thirty-Minute Theatre

overview: An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

original_name: Thirty-Minute Theatre

Český

iso_639_1: cs

iso_3166_1: CZ

english_name: Czech

svenska

Anton Tjechov

biography: Rysk författare

iso_639_1: sv

iso_3166_1: SE

english_name: Swedish

беларуская мова

iso_639_1: be

iso_3166_1: BY

english_name: Belarusian

Polski

iso_639_1: pl

iso_3166_1: PL

english_name: Polish

Deutsch

Anton Tschechow

biography: Anton Pawlowitsch Tschechow war ein russischer Schriftsteller, Novellist und Dramatiker. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Autoren der russischen Literatur.

Slovenčina

iso_639_1: sk

iso_3166_1: SK

english_name: Slovak

普通话

安東·卓可夫

biography:
安東·巴甫洛維奇·契訶夫（1860 — 1904）是俄國劇作家、小説家，其戲劇作品享譽世界，短篇小説創作至今仍被視為難以逾越的高峯。他與亨利克·易卜生、奧古斯特·斯特林堡並稱為早期現代戲劇的三大奠基者。契訶夫的本職是醫生，他曾説："醫學是我合法的妻子，而文學是我的情人。"

這位前農奴之子最初以醫學生身份撰寫通俗喜劇小品維持家計。在行醫期間，他完成了首部多幕劇《伊凡諾夫》（1887）。隨着《草原》（1888）、《乏味的故事》（1889）等作品的問世，他開始聚焦深刻主題；後期代表作包括《第六病室》（1892）、《黑修士》（1894）及《帶小狗的女人》（1899）。其劇作《海鷗》（1896）初演慘敗，直至 1899 年經康斯坦丁·斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基與莫斯科藝術劇院重塑才大獲成功。此後他將舊作《林妖》（1889）改編成廣受讚譽的《萬尼亞舅舅》（1897）。為治療最終奪去他生命的肺結核，契訶夫遷居克裏米亞，在那裏完成了傳世絕筆《虐是一家人》（1901）與《櫻桃園》（1904）。

普通话

安东·巴甫洛维奇·契诃夫

biography:
安东·巴甫洛维奇·契诃夫（1860—1904）是俄国剧作家、小说家，其戏剧作品享誉世界，短篇小说创作至今仍被视为难以逾越的高峰。他与亨利克·易卜生、奥古斯特·斯特林堡并称为早期现代戏剧的三大奠基者。契诃夫的本职是医生，他曾说："医学是我合法的妻子，而文学是我的情人。"

这位前农奴之子最初以医学生身份撰写通俗喜剧小品维持家计。在行医期间，他完成了首部多幕剧《伊凡诺夫》（1887）。随着《草原》（1888）、《乏味的故事》（1889）等作品的问世，他开始聚焦深刻主题；后期代表作包括《第六病室》（1892）、《黑修士》（1894）及《带小狗的女人》（1899）。其剧作《海鸥》（1896）初演惨败，直至1899年经康斯坦丁·斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基与莫斯科艺术剧院重塑才大获成功。此后他将旧作《林妖》（1889）改编成广受赞誉的《万尼亚舅舅》（1897）。为治疗最终夺去他生命的肺结核，契诃夫迁居克里米亚，在那里完成了传世绝笔《三姐妹》（1901）与《樱桃园》（1904）。

also_known_as:
A. P. Čechov
А. П. Чехов
А.П.Чехов
А.П. Чехов
Anton Čechov
Антон Павлович Чехов

title: Kaštanka

overview: A skilled dog is taken in by a circus artist who teaches him various tricks. During a performance, his original owners notice him and his career ends.

title: Vanya on 42nd Street

overview: An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.

title: Ivanov

title: Medvěd

overview: Will a young widow's determination to spend the rest of her life alone hold up when an uncouth but nevertheless attractive man bursts into her house? An adaptation of Chekhov's play performed by Jan Werich and Stella Zázvorková.

title: Starostlivý otec

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: 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 has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, who does not return his ardor.

title: Three Years

overview: 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.

title: Medvěd

title: Tři sestry

title: Podzimní slunce

title: Podzimní slunce

title: All Forgotten

overview: A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.

title: Swan Song

overview: 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.

title: Koe-chto iz Gubernskoy Zhizni

overview: A television film based on vaudeville and early short stories by Anton Chekhov, "The Proposal", "The Wedding", "The Anniversary", etc. The scene is a provincial ball.

original_title: Кое-что из губернской жизни

title: Crise de nerfs

title: Key Witness

overview: Vasily Kapluntsev, a burgher, died suddenly. Experts found poison in his body, and now his young wife Maria Kapluntseva is accused of murder. The main witness at the trial is the Kapluntsevs' neighbor, Vasily's friend and Maria's lover.

original_title: Главный свидетель

title: Il matrimonio

overview: An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.

title: Il matrimonio

title: Der jähzornige junge Mann

title: Labutí píseň

title: Labutí píseň

title: Navštívenka

title: Na zapřenou

title: Zločin a trik I.

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: The New York Times recently called Dmitry Krymov “one of the world’s finest theatermakers.” For this new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, the world-renowned Russian director collaborates with the Wilma’s acclaimed HotHouse Acting Company to reimagine one of theater’s enduring masterworks.  What is it like to lose your home?  The Cherry Orchard centers around a Russian family grappling with the potential foreclosure of their estate, and a community in transition as the old makes way for the new. Volleyballs and sunflower seeds fly, while a giant mechanical train station flipboard tells the future … plus more surprises await in Krymov’s inventive re-interpretation.  One family is in danger of losing their home, their comfort, and their power. What comes next … and who will profit?

title: Medvěd

title: The Country Man, or The Involuntary Tragedian

original_title: Дачний чоловік, або Трагік мимоволі

title: Hollywood Seagull

overview: An adaptation of the play by Anton Chekhov.

title: Román o base

title: Chameleón

title: Bahno

overview: A young lieutenant, who is visiting his uncle at the time, goes to collect a debt from a tenant, as requested by his uncle. He wants to get married, and his uncle will lend him money for the wedding if he collects the debts from the tenants. The woman prepares the money, but when the young lieutenant signs the bills and hands them over to her, she does not give him the money. Upon his return, the lieutenant confides everything to his uncle, who then sets out to collect them himself...

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

title: The Death of a Government Clerk

overview: Animation adapted from a short story by Anton Chekhov. A government clerk sneezes on a department general. Although the department general immediately dismisses the incident, the clerk cannot let it go.

original_title: Смерть чиновника

title: Jubileum

title: Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her

overview: This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore. Darezhan Omirbayev's ABOUT LOVE (38 min) is a bitter love story based on Anton Chekhov's novel, in which a lonely math teacher falls in love with her married university classmate. Pen-ek Ratanaruang's TWELVE TWENTY (30 min) depicts the encounters of a man and a woman on a long haul flight, where they spend the next twelve hours and twenty minutes reading, drinking, eating and watching movies and sleeping by each other's side, as if they are a married couple.

original_title: Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her

title: Wedding

title: Ward No. 6

overview: Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how easy it is to become what we fear most.

title: Ujo Váňa

title: La Cerisaie

overview: The last vestiges of a family that has gone from cherry season to sorrow... Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocrat who, upon returning from a trip to Paris, must face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after defaulting on her mortgage. In denial, she continues to live in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the magnificent cherry trees are chopped down by the new owner Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

title: About Love

overview: 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.

title: Upheaval

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

title: Zlodeji

title: Prelietavka

title: Nepriatelia

title: The Seagull

overview: Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which brought together representatives of secular society - actress Irina Arkadina, the host's sister and her lover, the famous writer Trigorin. Sorin’s nephew, Konstantin Treplev, in love with a neighbor girl Nina Zarechnaya, who dreams of becoming an actress, writes for her a play that she plays in the scenery of Sorin’s garden.

title: My Tender and Affectionate Beast

overview: An aristocrat falls for a young woman who brings him ruin. Based on Chekhov's story. AKA A Hunting Accident, The Shooting Party.

original_title: Мой ласковый и нежный зверь

title: The Duel

overview: 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 antipode, naturalist Von Coren is sure that people like Laevsky are worth being destroyed. But regardless characters' will and desires, providence deals with their lives in its own way...

original_title: Плохой хороший человек

title: An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

overview: On a summer day in late 19th century Russia, a group of bourgeois friends and acquaintances gather at a dilapidated country estate.

original_title: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино

title: Lady with the Dog

overview: On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair.

original_title: Дама с собачкой

title: August

overview: 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's play, "Uncle Vanya."

title: Liberal

overview: Humanity presented a beautiful and touching picture on the first day of the new year. Everyone was happy, rejoicing, congratulating each other. The air was filled with the most sincere and heartfelt wishes. Everyone was happy and satisfied... Only the provincial secretary Ponimaev was dissatisfied. On New Year's afternoon, he stood on one of the capital's streets and protested. Hugging a lamppost with his right hand and waving away who knows what with his left, he muttered unforgivable and intended things...

title: From Every Man I Loved

overview: A story about Andjela and her three lovers, inspired by Chekhov’s prose.

title: Jeden ze soubojů

title: Dead End

overview: A young woman is living with her mother at the end of a dead-end street. The young woman notices that a man standing in the street stares into her room every day. After a while, she gets used to his presence and falls in love with him.

title: Colorful Stories

original_title: Пёстрые рассказы

title: The Seagull

title: Surgery

overview: A short movie based on Anton Chekhov novels.

title: Ragin

overview: Based on a short story Room number 6 by Chekhov. A doctor taking particular interest in his mental health patients ends up institutionalized himself.

title: Ivanov

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

title: Rostislav Plyatt Reads Chekhov

original_title: Ростислав Плятт читает Чехова

title: Platonov

title: The Seagull

overview: The story of Nina, a young woman who dreams of glory and whose dream turns into a nightmare. The story of Treplev, a young poet crushed by an invasive mother, who wants to prove to the world that he exists, that he deserves to be loved. Chekhov invites us to witness a moment in the lives of individuals who have made a choice, and will have to live with the consequences...

title: Toto and the Kings of Rome

overview: An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

title: Il prigioniero

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

title: Three Sisters

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.

title: The Harmfulness of Tobacco

overview: An adaptation of a Chekhov monologue about a hen-pecked schoolmaster forced by his domineering wife to lecture at a Women's Institute meeting on the evils of smoking, but instead finds himself looking back on his failed life.

title: Višňový sad

title: Hôtel de France

overview: 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 mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.

title: The Witch

overview: Raissa is unhappy with her husband and enamored with the young postman. The husband, Savely, accuses his wife of being a witch because of all the young men who keep disappearing and accuses her of using her witchcraft on the postman.

title: An Event

overview: A grandfather and his grandson go to a fair to sell a horse. A ranger and his vicious partner, Matijevic, follow them as they return home in order to rob them. The confrontation takes place in the forest.

title: Love and Fear

overview: Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta’s film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play.

title: Anton Chekhov's The Duel

overview: Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya. Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to abandon her.

title: The Lottery Ticket

overview: Based on the story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

original_title: Выигрышный билет

title: Gooseberry

overview: Three interlocutors are having a sedate conversation in a cozy hallway...

title: The Orchard

overview: Based on Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Orchard is an eccentric comedy about class struggles in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. An aging aristocratic lady returns home to face the loss of her magnificent cherry orchard estate.

title: Eccentrics

overview: The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young and inexperienced, rightly believing that an artist needs a muse every day, not a wife and mistress.

title: Revenge

overview: Lev Savvitch Turmanov accidentally heard how his young colleague spoke disparagingly of him, and ignited a thirst for revenge.

title: Agáta

overview: Three "miniatures" touching on romantic relationships between men and women from different perspectives. Matěj, a young vegetable garden guard and lover of idleness and village women, spends the night in the grass with Agáta, the wife of a switchman, even though he is not particularly interested in the unsatisfied woman. Voloďa, a young man growing up without a father, is confused about his feelings for the married thirty-year-old Míša, who seduces him on a whim and then rejects him. The hunter with a "free spirit" refuses to spend even a single day with his unhappy village wife, whom the mayor (who first got him drunk) married him to years ago out of envy for his shooting skills.

title: Little Lili

overview: This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili (Swimming Pool's Ludivine Sagnier) --a sexy young local girl--to his famous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished film director, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. The graceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, is immediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms.

title: Joker

overview: Maxim Salyutov, a young man worthy of all praise, at the peak of his career, falls in love with Lelya – a girl from a different social circle. Maxim gathers his courage, overcomes his shyness, and, without any hope, confesses his feelings to Lelya. Hurrah! She reciprocates his feelings. The bride agrees, the groom agrees. It seems that happiness is near. But not so fast!

title: Black Sabbath

overview: Three tales of supernatural horror include a woman plagued by threatening phone calls, a family targeted by vampiric monsters, and a deceased medium who wreaks havoc upon the living.

title: Racek

title: Revenger

overview: A film about an unhappy man who catches his wife with a lover. He leaves to buy a gun, while plotting to kill the wife and the lover. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

title: Romance with a Double Bass

overview: A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river. The princess is doing the same, unbeknownst to the bass player, but when someone steals their clothes, the bass player helps the princess to preserve her dignity by transporting her back to the castle in his bass case, and along the way they discover they have feelings for each other. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

title: Two Souls

title: Obyčajný príbeh

title: It Can Pass Through the Wall

overview: An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building.

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: A huge house, a coffin house becomes a symbol of a wasted life, a repository of the secrets and mysteries of its inhabitants, a place of unfulfilled hopes and aspirations...

title: Still Alice

overview: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

title: Chekhov's Pages

overview: Screen adaptation of the two-part play "Chekhov's Pages" staged by the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky based on one-act plays and stories by A.P. Chekhov: “Gimp”, “Lecture on the dangers of tobacco”, “Anniversary”, “Pecheneg”, “The Story of Mrs. N.N.”, “Swan Song”.

original_title: Чеховские страницы

title: Agafia

overview: A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.

title: Le Rustre et le Juge

overview: An obnoxious man ends up in court facing a familiar judge after a dispute over archery.

title: Courtship

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

title: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

overview: A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.

title: Ward Six

overview: A study of the mental breakdown of a doctor in a remote rural village. He believes himself intellectually superior to everyone except for a political prisoner in a mental ward. This is a metaphor on life under repressive governments, conformity versus individual expression.

title: The Bride

overview: Nadya Shumin is engaged to be married to Andrey Andreitch, the son of a local priest. Nadya lives on her grandmother's estate with her mother, "a fair-haired woman tightly laced in, with a pince-nez, and diamonds on every finger." While Nadya is a woman with a great desire for education and independence, Andrey is a friendly but rather vacuous and totally unmotivated man. Sasha, an ill and impoverished young man who is spending the summer on the estate has long been considered part of the family. Sasha implores Nadya to follow her heart - to go to Petersburg and attend the University.

title: Afternoon

overview: 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 of them drift away from each other more and more.

title: Incredible Bet, or True Event That Ended Happily Hundred Years Ago

overview: A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, the student was to spend 15 years in solitary confinement.

original_title: Невероятное пари, или Истинное происшествие, благополучно завершившееся сто лет назад

title: The Sea Gull

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

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.

title: Dark Eyes

overview: Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

title: Frieriet

overview: A young man Lomov comes to propose to his neighbour Natalya but they keep on fighting over various topics.

title: The Steppe

overview: 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 way across the Russian steppes, and at this time in history, that arduous journey could only be undertaken by horse and carriage. Reminiscent of the American pioneer wagon trains heading West, the tale lacks any attacks from hostile forces but is filled with charming vignettes. In one part of the journey, the boy comes across some fishermen along a river, harpooning their catch for the day. In another segment, he is entertained when some folk dancers do a lively show. But in general, it is too long and unmomentous a journey to hold attention well for nearly two hours.

title: Hasičský plášť

title: Three Sisters

overview: Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.

title: The Bad Boy

overview: The story is about a nasty boy who blackmails his older sister and the young man who is in love with her.

original_title: Злой мальчик

title: A Joke

overview: Should Nadia stay in her hometown amongst the familiar and her old friends? Or should she go abroad and study? One boy makes this decision especially hard to make. When are feelings just friendship and when are they something more?

title: An Uneventful Story

overview: 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 not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.

title: Chekhov's Vaudevilles

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

original_title: Водевили Чехова

title: Labutí píseň

title: Rain

overview: A short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting. Inspired by Chekhov's story "The Lady with the Dog".

title: Ward Six

overview: A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the story takes place. Impressed by his rebellious spirit and clever remarks, he tends to spend more time with him while also indulging in meditation, only to be ridiculed by his fellow colleagues. Based on a Chekhov's work of the same title.

title: Måsen

overview: This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

title: The Seagull

overview: What if Konstantin Gavrilovich, from Anton Chekkov's famous play, did not commit suicide and was murdered instead? And who did it? Boris Akunin's  take on The Seagull unfolds as a comedic murder mystery.

title: The Seagull

overview: At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.

title: The Apple Trees

overview: "The Apples" (1955) is the graduation film of two of the most important directors of the following decades, Iulian Mihu and Manole Marcus, and shows a young couple mocked by a nobleman because they had stolen some apples from his estate.

title: The Wood Demon

overview: A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen. At the luncheon is Khrushchov, a passionate environmentalist, called "the Wood Demon" by all, in love with Sonya and she with him, but neither will say it. Two weeks later there's a family meeting at the professor's estate; two weeks after that, a supper at the cabin of Dyadin, who's cheerful to all. George, Helen, Sonya, and Khrushchov are each suffocating. Can any of them take action?

title: Requiem

overview: The last play directed by Hanoch Levin. The plot follows three grieving characters: The Old Man, The Mother, and The Mule Driver, as they look for remedy from passers-by and confront the realities of death and the loss of their loved ones. Set in a small, desolate village, the play explores their struggles to find meaning in life amid sorrow; a poignant tale on mortality and the human condition.

title: National Theatre Live: Vanya

overview: Andrew Scott brings multiple characters to life in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, filmed live in West End, London. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.

title: The Man In The Case

overview: The story about one teacher of the Greek language in the gymnasium - Byelikov. He was so distrustful that he turned his whole life into a "case existence".

original_title: Людина в футлярі

title: The Bear

overview: Young man comes to collect a debt owed to him by the widow Popova's late husband. They argue, duel with pistols and fall in love while all of this is witnessed by Popova's servant Luka.

title: Švédská zápalka

overview: The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the administrator Psekov that his master, the cornet Klyausov, has been murdered. A commission, headed by an investigating judge, is sent to the estate of the debauched nobleman. The decisive evidence is a Swedish match.

title: Svatba s generálem

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

title: A Golden Ring, a Bouquet of Scarlet Roses

overview: 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, clean and modest girl who meekly marries an already worn-out and balding man from the city, decently "laying by the collar". There is a merry wedding, and the husband leaves, leaving another worker in the family...

original_title: Колечко золотое, букет из алых роз

title: Onkel Vanja

overview: A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm.

title: Summer Storm

overview: It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.

title: Kasba

overview: The story centers around a small town entrepreneur named Maniram who makes a major profit by cheating people and selling them tainted food. His business is run by his daughter-in-law Tejo, who is married to Maniram's mentally challenged younger son. When Maniram's elder son comes back into town to get married, things start to go awry.

title: Pharmacist

overview: The small town is asleep. Only the young wife of the elderly pharmacist Chernomordik, the owner of the pharmacy, is awake. She has already gone to bed three times, but sleep stubbornly refuses to come to her. Suddenly, footsteps can be heard in the silence of the night. A short while later, two figures in white officer's tunics appear outside the window: one is large and fat, while the other is smaller and thinner. A moment later, a bell rings in the pharmacy, and the worried pharmacist opens the door to the officers. The young officer, Obtesov, orders 15 kopecks worth of mint cakes. Meanwhile, the more experienced doctor strikes up a casual conversation. Soon, a bottle of wine appears on the table, and the young pharmacist agrees to have a sip...

title: Námluvy

title: Days and Nights

overview: Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. A modern retelling of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull", set in rural New England.

title: Racek

overview: A famous actress arrives at her brother's estate with her son and boyfriend, a writer. There they meet young Nina, who flies through their lives like a seagull...

title: The Seagull

overview: A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character.

title: The Roundabout

overview: Satirical comedy based on the notebooks and short stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: "Romance with Double-Bass","On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco", "Misery", "Grateful", "Polinka", "The Cynic", "The Ninny".

title: Tears the World Can't See

overview: Three friends from a wet neighbourhood come back from the pub properly stoned and decide to continue partying at the home of one of them, because he has a nice wife who understands and gives them a nice treat. But the reality is somewhat different...

title: The Sisters

overview: Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile relationships in their own lives.

title: Long Live... Mice!

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

original_title: Да здравствуют... мыши!

title: Drama on the Hunt

original_title: Драма на охоте

title: Belated Flowers

overview: Princess Mariya fell in love with doctor Toporkov, who was treating her, in the recent past the serf of her family. Now he has become a celebrity and is only concerned about buying a new home profitably. He does not notice her love and marries a rich merchant. The princess in love comes to see Toporkov and opens to him. Her strong feeling touches Toporkov’s hardened heart, he leaves his wife and leaves the princess abroad.

original_title: Цветы запоздалые

title: National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

original_title: National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

title: Country Life

overview: Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action begins when Alexander returns with his beautiful young wife Deborah, revealing himself as an arrogant failure and wanting to sell the farm out from under Jack. Blakemore introduces themes about Australia's separation from England, as well as expanding the pacifist and ecological philosophies espoused by the local Doctor Max Askey.

title: Story of the Bass Cello

overview: "Román s basou" is another short by master a stop-motion puppet-animator Jiri Trnka. The story is based on Anton Chekhovs story "Roman s Kontrabasom". Princess Bibulova decides to go fishing along the river while not far away a bass player leaves his two companions to go for a swim.

title: The Three Sisters

overview: 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 dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.

title: Seagull

overview: On the forest lake the person "from nothing to do" killed a Seagull. The symbolism of this story allowed Chekhov to Express the psychologically complex "inextricably unconnected" relationships of the characters living near a beautiful lake, suffering, hoping, searching, but unable to find themselves and their place in life.The most difficult in the fate of Anton Chekhov, but also the most famous and popular play in theaters in the world. Its simplicity, unique theatricality and stage longevity attract Directors and actors who, with each new production, offer the audience to unravel the mystery of the play, in which the author presented the drama of people in the Comedy genre. Famous film Director Andrey Konchalovsky offers a new version of the play, insisting that the stage action he staged is exactly the version of "the Seagull" that Chekhov intended it to be.

title: If Only I Knew...

overview: The plague of civil war reached a provincial town, where several noble families were stuck waiting for a train. The joy of hope was replaced by despair, fear of the future. No one knew how much was allotted to him in this life.  Emotions boil, passions run high, hearts break, will is destroyed, pride is trampled. Each of the heroes survives in his own way, but all fell low. Ah, if you only knew when the long-awaited train would arrive in Moscow ...

original_title: Если бы знать...

title: Three Sisters

overview: A screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play about three sisters yearning for a better life.

title: To Stumble

overview: The "To Stumble" comedy  is based on "Death of an Official" story by Anton Chekhov. Trying to catch the ironic intonation of the writer, in whom the comedic side by side with the tragic, the director blurs the boundaries of time and talks about the present day.

title: Švédska zápalka

title: Junior Lieutenant

overview: The moral suffering of the lieutenant who unknowingly sneezes on the head of the general.

title: Jubileum

title: Medvěd

title: National Theatre Live: The Seagull

overview: Emilia Clarke makes her West End debut as Nina in Anya Reiss’ unique 21st century modernisation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, with direction by Jamie Lloyd.

title: La Mouette

overview: A French adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull", staged by Arthur Nauzyciel.

title: Onkel Vanja

overview: A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Elena.

title: The Black Monk

overview: Andrey Kovrin, overworked intellectual who dreams of liberty and glory, decides to retire to the country house of his old friend Pesotsky and his daughter Tanya to get some rest. As he sits in the garden, he sees the ghost of a monk, who will haunt his stay and eventually drive him mad. Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

title: Lawlessness

title: Three Sisters

overview: 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 melancholy plays.

title: Drama on the Hunt

original_title: Драма на охоте

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: During a hot summer, Sonya and her uncle Vanya spend their days idle in a dilapidated farmhouse deep in the countryside. Alone and isolated, they only receive occasional visits from Astrov, the local doctor.

title: Ivanov

overview: Based on the play of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

title: Too Salty

title: Too Salty

title: Rozprávanie pani N. N.

title: The Seagull

overview: Nina, a young actress who finds herself in an emotional turmoil during her opening night, struggles with a rehearsal that challenges her limits.

title: The Wife

overview: About the complicated relationship of spouses.

title: Onkel Wanja

title: Tobakkens uheldige virkninger

title: Borgerlig lykke

title: Ward No. 6

original_title: Палата номер шесть

title: Cards

overview: In the dead of night, four officials are playing screwball. The originality of their game lies in the fact that each card of the deck is a photo of an official, their colleague.…

title: The Seagull

overview: Anton Chekhov’s first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Tréplev.  Yury Butusov's Golden Mask Award-winning production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who struggles to find a language of his own. This is not only a performance about the theatre, it is an anthology of the theatre. Chekhov’s characters are in the process of creating their lives or watching them fall apart, which, according to Butusov, may be a closely related activity.

title: Ark of Fools

overview: Set in a bleak, filth-ridden provincial hospital, a disillusioned doctor begins to find the philosophical ramblings of a mental patient more stimulating than the company of "sane" society. As their relationship deepens amidst the grimy and decaying wards, the doctor's own mental health is called into question by his suspicious colleagues.

original_title: Archa bláznů aneb Vyprávění z konce života

title: Vint

overview: Gambling in "Vint." Strange and yet captivating with its unexpected twist, which was started one dreary autumn night by the officials Andrei Stepanovich Peresolin, Serafim Zvizdulin, Stepan Kulakevich, Yeremey Nedoyekhov, and Ivan Pisulin.

title: Man in a Shell

overview: The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: “no matter what happens”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.

original_title: Человек в футляре

title: The Anna Cross

overview: Based on the short story by A. P. Chekhov. Beggar 18-year-old beauty Anna marries a rich 52-year-old official to help her father and brothers. After the death of the mother, the father drinks, the brothers go hungry. For the sake of her relatives, she is ready for anything, even to become the wife of an elderly, rude, vulgar and hated Modest Alexeyevich.

title: Morning

overview: Maya is a teenager young girl who is working as a housemaid in a rich family. She is required to do all household work and also look after a small child. She toils from dawn to dusk and cannot get peaceful sleep. She, therefore, wants to get rid of it. One night, she kills the child in the cradle and then, relieved of her burden, quietly sleeps on the ground.

title: The Diary of an Old Man

overview: A doctor is confronted with his own illness.

title: After Anyuta

overview: London, 2019. Anyuta spends the day posing as a life model for both her lover, medical student Steven, and neighboring artist Ferris. Inspired by Chekhov's short story Anyuta (1886).

title: Morning

title: Drei Schwestern

title: Drei Schwestern

title: Platonow

title: Drei Schwestern

title: A Joke

overview: Based on the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

title: The Steppe

overview: A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.

title: Drama in the Barber’s Shop

overview: A television film based on A. Chekhov’s short story In the Barber’s Shop.

original_title: Драма в цирюльне

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: A television film based on the famous production by the Bolshoi Drama Theater is yet another interpretation of Chekhov’s “boring story” — about the life of an intelligent and conscientious Russian man, Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky, “lost” in the rural backwater.

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: Retired professor Serebryakov and his young wife Yeléna disrupt the lives of his brother-in-law Vanya and daughter Sofya on a rural estate, leading to a crisis of unrequited love, resentment, and disillusionment.

title: Uncle Vanya

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

title: Sala nr 6

overview: An introverted, experienced doctor is the director of a mental hospital. Despite his friendly nature, he has long been no longer appreciated by the staff, and a younger colleague is waiting for his job.

title: Huntsman

overview: A screen adaptation of the short story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

title: Маска

title: The Bad Boy

overview: First short film by Wajda, based on the story "A Naughty Boy" by A. Chekhov.

title: The Black Monk

overview: Man who talks with a ghost called Black Monk is forced to see a doctor. After the treatment, he loses his ability to communicate with the ghost, becoming angry, violent and utterly unhappy.

original_title: Чёрный монах

title: Romance with a Double Bass

overview: Princess Bibulova decides to go fishing along the river, while not far away, a musician leaves his two companions to go for a swim. Soon afterwards, the princess also goes swimming. While neither swimmer is looking, two thieves lurking on the riverbank steal their clothes, leaving the musician and the princess in a puzzling and embarrassing situation.

original_title: Роман с контрабасом

title: The Grasshopper

overview: Osip Dymov, the titular counselor and the doctor of thirty one years, serves in two hospitals at the same time: intern and anatomist. From nine o'clock in the morning and in the forenoon accepts patients, then goes to open corpses. But its income is hardly enough for a covering of expenses of the wife mad about talents and celebrities in the art and artistic environment whom it daily accepts in the house.

title: Ranks and People

overview: 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, "Anna On The Neck", "Death Of A Petty Official" and "Chameleon" were assembled for the silent screen.

title: Superfluous People

title: Story of an Unknown Man

overview: 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 the general's son's house. While he plots his revenge, the son has an affair with a woman whom the valet begins to love. She is discarded after becoming pregnant, and the valet has his own troubles; he has contracted tuberculosis. Sick and unable to follow through on his plans for vengeance, he leaves for France with the pregnant woman hoping to declare his love and seek a cure for his illness.

original_title: Рассказ неизвестного человека

title: The Safety Match

overview: 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.

original_title: Шведская спичка

title: Funny People!

overview: The movie intertwines the plot lines of the stories "In the Bathhouse", "Tears Invisible to the World", "A Conversation between a Man and a Dog" and others. By the will of the film's creators, the viewer gets to the rehearsals of an unusual choir and gets acquainted with the stories of the singers - diverse, but invariably amusing.

original_title: Смешные люди!

title: Vanka Zhukov

overview: Based on Chekhov's Christmas story "Vanka".

original_title: Ванька Жуков

title: Drama

overview: A famous writer's long-awaited nap is interrupted by a visit from an aspiring playwright who wishes to show him her latest drama.

title: Vanka

overview: 9-year-old boy complains about his hard life in a letter to his grandfather.

title: These Different, Different, Different Faces

overview: Igor Ilyinsky reads Anton Pavlovich Chekhov’s stories “The Death of an Official”, “Over Salted”, “The Orator”, “The Night Before the Trial”, “The Daughter of Albion”, “Boots”, “Chameleon”, as much as performing a wide variety of characters.

original_title: Эти разные, разные, разные лица

title: Three Years

overview: Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to marry her, but the relationship is not going to be simple.

title: Big Volodya, Small Volodya

overview: The action takes place in a backwater small town. The story of the life of a married couple - Colonel Yagich and his wife Sophia Lvovna, a young woman, and their friend - a military doctor, who is called, like Sonechka's husband, Vladimir. Partly to spite Volodya the little man who once did not reciprocate her feeling, Sonechka married Yagich, who is thirty years older than she is. Soon the longing came - she did not love her husband. Soniechka rushes back to Volodya the little, and they begin a stormy romance...

original_title: Володя большой, Володя маленький

title: Huntsman

title: Flowers Belated

overview: Princess Marusya fell in love with Dr. Toporkov, the doctor who had treated her, but he failed to notice her affection and married a wealthy merchant’s daughter. Several years later, called upon to treat Marusya once more, at last her deep feelings melt his hardened heart... but it is far too late: Marusya is dying.

original_title: Цветы запоздалые

title: Ladies

title: The Trial

overview: Based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov.

title: Soft-Boiled Boots

overview: The film is based on the stories Anton Chekhov. It is a tribute to the actor Boris Andreyev. He plays a major role that keeps up for the duration of the film. Lively and intelligent Valery Spout largely mitigates underline the drama of the protagonist, while Michael Sveta's role, though small, is bright and memorable.

original_title: Сапоги всмятку

title: Soft-Boiled Boots

original_title: Сапоги всмятку

title: The House with the Mezzanine

overview: A famous painter lives in idleness in the estate of the landlord Belokurov. Once he meets a family of Volchaninov's living in the neighborhood, in which there are two daughters: the eldest (Lydia), a serious and strict girl with convictions, who tries to help ordinary people and doesn't like the artist very much for his idleness, and the youngest (Zhenya or Misyus), which soon takes a great interest in the artist. The painter also falls in love with Zhenya, but Lydia destroys their happiness ...

original_title: Дом с мезонином

title: Chekhovian Motifs

overview: The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.

original_title: Чеховские мотивы

title: Chekhovian Motifs

original_title: Чеховские мотивы

title: The Kiss

overview: Lieutenant Ryabovich was accustomed to the monotonous life of an officer, but he found another life—society—difficult: ritual conversations, cards, billiards, chance encounters with random women. One of these women kisses Ryabovich in the house of a provincial landowner, and now the officer’s thoughts are consumed by her half-imaginary image. Meanwhile, the frivolous Lieutenant Lobytko teases his gentle friend, unaware of the danger.

title: Kashtanka

overview: The lost dog Kashtanka is picked up on the street by circus actor Monsieur Georges. He gives her a new name - Aunt and, having prepared a number with her, begins to perform in the circus. Their performances are very successful.

title: Work of Art

overview: Dr. Ivan Nikolayevich received a bronze candelabrum as a gift from Sasha Smirnov, who was grateful for his cure. But the doctor is embarrassed: the candelabrum is very immodest - two completely naked naiads. The Doctor is thinking: who would he give this unfortunate present to? Suddenly he remembers that he owes lawyer Ukhov for his consultations. In turn, Ukhov, driven by the same feeling as the doctor, gets rid of the gift, giving it to the comic actor Shashkin on the day of the benefit. Shashkin, deciding that such a "work of art" could compromise him, sells the candelabrum to an antique bronze store owned by Sasha's mother Smirnov. And Sasha, delighted that at last he has found a match for the donated candelabrum, gives it to the doctor.

original_title: Произведение искусства

title: Exam for Rank

original_title: Экзамен на чин

title: Kashtanka

overview: Little dog Kashtanka is stolen, sold, tossed out into the street and saved by a clown. Young Fedyushka gets lost looking for the dog and ends up a prisoner of the sinister Mazamet who compels him to rove from house to house to make money, while Fedyushka’s father wanders through the streets in search of his lost child.

title: Boots

overview: The piano tuner Murkin, an elderly and sickly man, sets out in the morning to find his boots, in which his neighbor's overnight guest has mistakenly left.

title: Family Happiness

overview: The film comprises four novellas:  (1) “From Boredom”. A wealthy matron, bored with life, embarks on a romance with her children’s romantic tutor.  (2) “Nerves”. Haunted by tales of the supernatural, Vaksin can’t sleep and is found in the morning napping on the governess’s chest.  (3) “The Avenger”. A husband plans to kill his unfaithful wife but abandons the plot when he dreads the punishment to come.  (4) “The Proposal”. A tragicomic matchmaking tale of landowner Lomov wooing his neighbor’s daughter.

original_title: Семейное счастье

title: The Cherry Orchard

original_title: Вишнёвый сад

title: Duel

overview: Tormented by the worthlessness and boredom of life, the official Laevsky longs to break the vicious circle of his existence at any cost. His moral antipode, the naturalist Von Koren, is convinced that people like Laevsky are worthy of destruction. But, contrary to the wishes and will of the heroes, providence decides their fates in its own way.

title: Iniquity

overview: College assessor Miguev, returning home, finds a foundling at the porch. Having mistaken him for his son from the former maid Agnia, the frightened Miguev, in turn, is trying to toss the baby, but to no avail. Tired dad decides to confess to his wife Anna Filippovna, and, meanwhile, the true parents begin to search for their child left “for a second” at the threshold of a respectable house ...

title: Belated Flowers

overview: Princess Marusya once fell in love with the serious, businesslike doctor Toporkov, and it took her whole life for this man to one day turn away from his business and look into her eyes. Her days were already numbered. And she herself, and her love, and his attention, and their short happiness - all this is like belated flowers...

original_title: Цветы запоздалые

title: The Guardian

overview: A young subordinate of a general pays him a visit with the purpose of asking for the hand of his niece.

title: A Swan Song

overview: From the life of an old theater comedian.

original_title: Лебединая песня

title: Kashtanka

overview: After getting lost in the street, a dog is adopted by a kindly clown.

title: Enemies

overview: On a dark September evening, a doctor loses his young son to diphtheria. Soon afterwards, a landowner arrives and begs the doctor to come see his sick wife.

title: The Seagull

overview: The arrival of a famous writer brings disarray to the lives of an aspiring playwright and a young actress.

title: The Seagull

overview: A staging of the play by Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Academic Art Theatre.

title: Anyuta

overview: Spending his days in a cheap hotel, medical student Klochkov entertains himself by mistreating his meek roommate Anyuta.

title: Mamad

overview: Office clerk Mamad breaks his ethics and steals a pack of paper from his office while preparing for his seventh child’s birth.  Haunted by guilt, an opportunity to confess seems to always elude him.

title: Jubilee

overview: The bank is preparing to solemnly celebrate the 15th anniversary of the institution. And at that moment, two events took place that turned everything upside down.

title: From the Life of a Zemstvo Doctor

overview: A story about several days in the life of a zemstvo doctor and his work in a rural hospital.

original_title: Из жизни земского врача

title: The Teacher of Literature

original_title: Учитель словесности

title: Večer Čechovových aktovek

title: Slzy, které svět nevidí

title: Labutí píseň

title: The Three Sisters

overview: Eleven years ago, General Prozorov, having received an appointment, moved his family from Moscow to a small provincial town. The general has died, his adult children - daughters Olga, Maria and Irina and son Andrey, - not finding any use for themselves, and feeling lonely, dream of returning to their native Moscow. They are trying to somehow arrange their own destiny, each in its own way, but nothing comes out of it ...

title: Na letním bytě

title: In the Town of S.

overview: A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.

title: FUGAKU 2 / The SEAGULL The Shots

overview: An ensemble drama opens with the son of a celebrated actress staging his own play for his mother and her lover, a popular writer, at a lakeside home. The second FUGAKU installment adapts Chekhov’s The Seagull, condensing the three-hour play to forty minutes of dialogue and a minimal set. This sparing use of text and stage design highlights the actors’ presence and the energy of their interactions.  Directed by Shinji Aoyama in collaboration with Tama Art University, this rarely-seen experimental three-part series (2012–2015) explores cinema as a dynamic, living medium. Combining student-led production with theatrical adaptation and meta-narrative devices, FUGAKU challenges conventional filmmaking while interrogating the boundaries between fiction, reality, and creative education.

title: The Witch

overview: In a remote cabin, two people live together, the dirty, unkempt deacon Savely and his beautiful wife Raisa. The deacon torments his wife with absurd jealousy. During a snowstorm, a group of lost mail coach drivers stumble upon the cabin...

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: Vanya and his niece Sonya struggle to care for the estate owned by Vanya’s brother-in-law Alexánder, a wealthy professor. When he returns with a beautiful new wife and plans to sell the estate, hidden passions explode and lives come undone.

title: Onkel Wanja

overview: A revolution breaks out, caused by a financial crisis, business intrigues and corresponding natural disasters. Alexander flees from the uprising in the capital to Uncle Vanya's farm in the countryside. There Alexander and his beautiful wife Elena cause further chaos with Alexander's business ideas. Will Vanya and Sonja manage to protect their farm from the outrage of capitalism?

title: National Theatre Live: Three Sisters

overview: Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War. Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos.

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: A stage production of Anton Chekhov's play at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.

original_title: Вишневый сад

title: From Chekhov with Love

overview: Based on Anton Chekhov's short story, "About Love". Starring John Gielgud as Chekhov.

title: Taper

overview: A story about a loser who was able to admit it to himself, and another who couldn't.

title: On the Way

overview: A film adaptation of Chekhov's short story of the same name. A forty-year-old man and a young woman meet in a roadside inn. They get to know each other and wait out the blizzard raging outside the window.

title: The Three Sisters

overview: Chekhov’s tale of a family distanced from their environment and living in a world of growing disillusionment is a stunning adaptation of the Russian writer’s play.

title: The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka

overview: The Czech stop-motion puppet animation master Jiri Trnka directed some of the most acclaimed animated films ever made. In 1966, four years before his death, Newsday lauded him as "second to Chaplin as a film artist because his work inaugurated a new stage in a medium long dominated by Disney." Trnka continues to astound audiences to this day, particularly those discovering this amazing animation for the first time. This collection includes five of the master's shorts and his feature-length classic "The Emperor's Nightingale" based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale and narrated by Boris Karloff. Includes: The Emperor's Nightingale (1951, 67 min.), The Hand (18 min.), The Story of the Bass Cello (13 min.), A Merry Circus (11 min.), A Drop Too Much (14 min.), The Song of the Prairie (21 min.), Jiri Trnka: Puppet Animation Master documentary (12 min.).

title: Three Sisters

overview: A stage production by the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre.

title: Tři sestry

title: Boty

title: Хористка

title: Анюта

title: Хороший конец

original_title: Хороший конец

title: Верочка

title: Переполох

title: Воры

title: Детвора

title: Контрабас и флейта

original_title: Контрабас и флейта

title: Смерть чиновника

original_title: Смерть чиновника

title: Беззащитное существо

original_title: Беззащитное существо

title: At the Dacha

overview: Puppet animated film, an adaptation of the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov. Dacha resident Vykhodtsev receives a note from a mysterious stranger inviting him to meet in the gazebo. Hesitant, he goes to the rendezvous, where he encounters student Mitya, who received the same invitation. A quarrel ensues. Vykhodtsev’s wife, who appears, explains that it was a joke designed to get the men out of the house while the floors were being washed.

title: Jubileum

title: Námluvy

title: The Leshy

overview: The play, traditionally considered a precursor to Uncle Vanya, contains many characters, situations, and fragments of text that were later carried over into Uncle Vanya from The Wood Demon. In this play, as in all of Chekhov's works, the characteristics of the Russian national character are reflected. Nature and man are interconnected: man first cleared the forest, and then civilization cleared man. Spiritual values have been lost, traditions destroyed, and the ability to empathize and feel for others has vanished.

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: 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 has turned out to be a charlatan. To make matters worse, Vanya has fallen in love with Serabryakov's beautiful, young, new wife, ho does not return his ardor.

title: A Boring Story. From the Notes of an Old Man

overview: Based on the eponymous short story by A.P. Chekhov.

original_title: Скучная история. Из записок старого человека

title: In the Rooms

overview: Based on the stories of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

title: Dacha Life

original_title: Дачная жизнь

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Swan Song

overview: Based on the work of the same name by A. P. Chekhov about the fate of an old provincial actor.

original_title: Лебединая песня

title: Dráma

title: The Seagull

overview: Based on the play by A.P. Chekhov. TV version of the performance by the Maly Theatre.

title: The Seagull

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Television version of the performance by the "Lenkom" Theatre. Based on the comedy by A.P. Chekhov.

original_title: Вишневый сад

title: The Heavenly Wanderers

overview: A stage fantasy by Mark Zakharov based on the works of Aristophanes and Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

original_title: Небесные странники

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin (Teale), her former serf, who has his own agenda.

title: Wedding

overview: Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov, who has been caring for Dasha all summer, has dined every day with them and has proved himself to be his bridegroom, is not going to marry at all.

title: La Douce

overview: Free adaptation or unique interpretation of a short story by Anton Chekhov.

title: The End of the Season

overview: The touching drama “The End of the Season” tells the life story of three sisters and is inspired by the same-name play by Anton Chekhov. Vibrant and compelling characters are performed by an all-star feminine cast: Yuliya Peresild, Yulia Snigir and Anna Chipovskaya.

original_title: Конец сезона

title: You're The Boss!

overview: A municipal sweeper sneezes at an unwanted party and his saliva splashes on the mayor, this creates a big challenge in his mind and he decides to apologize to the mayor.

title: Three Years

overview: A television play based on the novella Three Years. Scenes from Family Life by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov.

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: A production of the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR.

original_title: Вишнёвый сад

title: Deary

overview: A story of a woman trying to find her happiness through a difficult life.

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Acclaimed director Simon Stone and his stellar Korean cast bring striking originality to Chekhov’s classic, relocating The Cherry Orchard of old Russia to modern-day Korea. Doyoung Song, a chaebol heiress, returns from abroad to a free and defiant Seoul. Above all, her family business is in peril, threatening the future of her mansion. As the Songs grapple with their status and heritage in a rapidly changing world, quiet tensions unfold within their glass-walled home, and the family collapses into a poignant, beautiful mess.

title: The Aftermath of the Inauguration of the Public Toilet at Kilometer 375

overview: The film follows the aftermath of an unfortunate incident at the inauguration of a public toilet located in the middle of the Egyptian desert. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's short story "The Death Of A Government Clerk," director El Zohairy offers us a story about fear in a milieu where uniformity and hierarchy reigns, in which the poses and gestures of the actors express a lot more than their words.

original_title: ما بعد وضع حجر الأساس لمشروع الحمام بالكيلو 375

title: Little Lili

title: Ottaal

overview: 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, Valiyappachayi, are arriving with their ducks. The village is as pleasant as it can be even though what brings him there is the death of his dearest parents. With hope and freedom, he is about to start his life afresh among the village's letter-less postman, the nameless dog, the rich lad, Tinku and many more.

title: O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro

original_title: O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro

title: Nalim

overview: The comic film "Nalim" is based on the story of Anton Chekhov in 1885. According to the plot, the peasants tried to pull out a huge налим, which was stuck under a snag. The peasants were joined by a local shepherd, a carpenter and a lordly coachman, and then by the master Andrei Andreich himself, who watched this scene for a long time. As a result, the налим hit Andrey Andreyevich with its tail, and the fish left the hapless fishermen.

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Set in late 19th-century Imperial Russia, this acclaimed stage production by KERA stars Yuki Amami and Yoshio Inoue in a moving adaptation filled with humor and heartbreak.  Madame Ranevskaya returns to her cherry orchard estate after years abroad, where she is welcomed by her daughter Anya, her brother Gaev, and her adopted daughter Varya. But behind the joyful reunion lies a devastating truth: the family is drowning in debt. Lopakhin, a wealthy merchant born to former serfs, proposes a plan to save the estate, yet the family continues living extravagantly. As servants pursue complicated romances and the idealistic student Trofimov speaks of a new future, the day of the estate’s auction draws near. What fate awaits the beloved “Cherry Orchard”?

title: Racek

title: National Theatre Live: The Seagull

overview: On a summer's day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin's cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever. Chekhov's masterly meditation on how the old takes revenge on the young is both comic and tragic, and marks the birth of the modern stage. Adapted by David Hare whose stage plays include Skylight, Pravada, and screenplays include The Hours and The Reader, directed by Jonathan Kent (Gypsy, Private Lives).

title: Nina

title: Brace Up!

overview: The Wooster Group's production of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, translated by Paul Schmidt and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, with performances from Kate Valk, Peyton Smith, Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Anna Kohler, Beatrice Roth, Ron Vawter, and Willem Dafoe.  This presentation of the 2003 production of BRACE UP!, designed by Ken Kobland and LeCompte, incorporates close-up recordings of the performers simultaneously with continuous wide-angle footage.

title: The Seagull

overview: Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater, Konstantin (Frank Langella) has written an experimental play with the lead to be acted by his beloved, Nina (Blythe Danner). He arranges the first performance to take place at a country estate, but the presence of his self-absorbed mother (Lee Grant) and her novelist lover disrupts the production.

title: Il gabbiano

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: If Only the Trains Came

overview: Play based on a story by Chekhov. For Gromov, behind the bars of a mental ward, the railway is the one hope of escape. For the doctor in charge, Andrei, it is the link with civilisation which alone could rose him from the lethargy of life in provincial Russia.

title: The Bear

overview: Anton Chekhov’s one-act comic play throws Elena Ivanonva Popova, a land-owning widow with dimples, on her cheeks up against Grigory Stepanovitch Smirnov, a middle-aged landowner. He arrives at her house claiming her late husband owed him money and he wants the debt repaid immediately. They argue and almost have a duel over the debt before they realise that they have fallen in love with each other.

title: La Sorcière

overview: Shot in Paris in December 1958, La Sorcière (The Witch) is Żuławski’s student film and directorial debut. The story is based on a short story by Anton Chekhov.

title: Les Trois Sœurs

overview: 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 everything has to start again. Chekhov's drama about loss and regaining meaning.

title: Ivanov

overview: A play by Chekhov, starring Vivien Leigh and John Gielgud, it marked Leigh’s final performance before her death in 1967

title: On the Harmfulness of Tobacco

overview: A Chekhov adaptation starring Michael Strong as Ivan Ivanovich Nyukhin, a lifelong smoker giving a lecture on the dangers of tobacco that gradually unwinds into a lyrical soliloquy on marriage and loneliness.

title: Ivanov

overview: Once a man of great influence and means, Ivanov has fallen into debt and out of love with his wife. Spending his evenings away from home, among the idle and morally corrupt, Ivanov finds himself drawn to Sasha, the daughter of a wealthy friend, who appears determined to save him.

title: Sonata

overview: A woman finds out that her 7-year-old son has stolen from her. She tries to explain that it was wrong but has difficulties conversing at a level the boy can understand. She improvises her message in a bedtime story. Based on a novel by Anton Chekhov.

title: Three Sisters

overview: Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.

title: Three Sisters

overview: Tri sestry (Three Sisters) is a 1998 opera by Péter Eötvös to a Russian libretto by Eötvös and Claus H. Henneberg based on Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters. It was the composer's first large-scale opera.

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Based on A. Chekov's play of the same name.

title: Anyuta

overview: Bolshoi Ballet stars Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova dance this 1982 performance of "Anyuta," the story of a small-town woman who purposely marries above her social status only to learn that popularity comes with a price. Maximova performs the role of Anyuta; Vasiliev plays Anyuta's drunk father.

title: Cseresznyéskert

title: The Good Doctor

overview: 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.

title: Les Trois Sœurs

overview: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.

title: Zinotchka

overview: "Zinotchka", directed by Christopher Miles, was made for the BBC's 'FULL HOUSE' arts programme, which invited 7 directors (the others were Jonathan Miller, Ken Loach, Karel Reisz, Gavin Millar, Ben Rea and Stephen Frears) to make 7 short films from short stories by Anton Tchekhov and James Joyce in 1972.

title: Romance with a Double Bass

overview: Lyrical story about a young double bass musician who travels with fellow musicians out of town to play at a wedding in a summer house. A thief and a girl, a bride at a wedding, will unexpectedly determine his fate. In a film without dialogue, music has a special role.

title: Platonov

overview: The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to seduce; the women around him simply find him irresistibly attractive, and he is only too happy to go along. The play predates the realism of Chekhov's later works in its desjointedness, but many of its scenes show the seeds of brilliance that would eventually emerge.

title: Uncle Vanya

overview: A retired professor returns to his estate with his beautiful young wife Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his now-deceased first wife; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm. For many years the brother (Uncle Vanya) has sent the farm's proceeds to the professor, while receiving only a small salary himself. The professor's daughter Sonya, who is about the same age as his new wife, also lives on the estate. The professor is pompous, vain, and irritable, and calls Dr. Astrov to treat his gout, then sends him away without seeing him. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Yelena's presence introduces a bit of sexual tension into the household: Astrov and Uncle Vanya fall in love with her and she spurns them both.

title: The Three Sisters

overview: In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei 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 dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.

title: Drama na lovu

title: The Wedding

overview: Class distinctions, inferiority complexes, and social climbing abound as the bride, groom, and their families gather for a wedding banquet. There's a rumor that a general will be in attendance, secured by a real estate agent at one family's expense. After an argument about electricity, which exposes both the ignorance and the combativeness of the bride, the general does arrive, ear trumpet in hand. He commands the attention of all. But will tranquility last until the group photo?

title: Björnen

overview: Widow Jelena has let it be known she does not want to meet any men and is upset when Grigorij shows up and wants to speak to her about something.

title: The Three Sisters

title: The Seagull

overview: A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

title: Psychopaths

title: The Proposal

overview: In formal attire, Ivan Vassilievich Lomov calls upon his neighbor, the bluff Stefan Stefanovich Chubukov. Chubukov fears that the prolix Lomov has come to borrow money, but is delighted when Lemov finally gets to the point and proposes to marry Chubukov's daughter Natalia. Without telling her why, Chubukov sends Natalia into the drawing room, and Lemov begins an even more roundabout proposal. Before he can make his intentions clear, Natalia takes exception to something he says, and an argument ensues. Lemov works himself into a lather. Will a funeral be required? Perhaps a neutral conversational topic, such as hunting dogs, can ease the couple past their disagreement.

title: La Cerisaie

title: The Bass Player

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

title: About Love

overview: Kairat, a teacher of mathematics, accidentally meets Aslar, along with whom he studied in university. Askar invites him to his home, where Kairat becomes acquainted with Togzhan, the wife of Askar. And he falls in love with her. Though this love was mutual, they couldn't step over the obstacles already made by their lives. Their emotions delayed. The script is based on the novel by Chekhov's About Love, Gooseberry.

title: Backstage Story

title: The Little Theater

overview: A young actress changing in the privacy of her dressing room, finds the theater's aging owner hiding behind her sofa. He begs her for mercy, claiming to be hiding from a lover's very violent and very angry husband.

title: The Cherry Orchard

overview: Bringing together one of the world’s great classic plays with one of Ireland’s greatest writers, Druid present Tom Murphy’s version of Chekhov’s masterpiece The Cherry Orchard at Black Box Theatre, Galway and Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin. A play about land, legacy, and the struggle between tradition and change, this is the first major production of Tom Murphy’s work since his death in 2018.

title: Il Giardino Dei Ciliegi (Leonardo Lidi)

overview: Leonardo Lidi, resident director of the Teatro Stabile di Torino, reaches the third stage of the Chekhov Project and tackles the great Russian author's last work. Written shortly before the Russian Revolution, “The Cherry Orchard” foreshadows major social changes and the emancipation of servants from wealthy landowners.

title: Zio Vanja

overview: Serebrjakov, Uncle Vanya's brother-in-law, is widowed and has remarried Helena. He wants to sell the country estate where the family lives: this unpopular decision sparks one of Chekhov's most famous dramas.

title: The seagull - the movie

overview: "Documents of the staging" of the play The seagull at the Orologio Theatre in Rome.

title: The seagull

overview: An old actress, a young actress, a famous writer, a budding playwright, a depressed teacher, and one who always wears black, meet at a summer house and philosophize about art, boredom and the meaning of life. Everyone is in love, of course, but precisely with someone who does not love them back.

title: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

overview: After long years spent in exile in Paris, Lyubov, a strange and elusive woman, returns to her ancestral estate, about to be sold to pay off the family’s debts. As the centre around which the play revolves, forever oscillating between tragedy and comedy, this maternal figure, this mater dolorosa, played by Isabelle Huppert, returns to a family unsettled by the future of the estate, and more largely, by that of this world she left behind. Modern society, with its social changes, is right around the corner, noisily announcing its arrival.

title: La tragedia è finita, Platonov

overview: Liv Ferracchiati has chosen Chekhov’s *Platonov* to explore the mechanism that links intuition, writing and life within an artist. “It is worth viewing Platonov with a degree of leniency,” she explains, “because in his outbursts, his miseries, his fears and his inconsolable sorrows, we recognise our own.”

title: Wrecker

overview: 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-handed. Andrii is an ordinary villager and a rather simple man. He is being optimistic and does not understand the seriousness of the case.

title: Atti unici

overview: Damiano Michieletto presents his own dramatic adaptation of two famous one-act plays by Chekhov: “The Marriage Proposal” and “The Bear.”

title: The Bear

overview: One day the landlord Smirnov demands the widow Popova to pay an old debt which her husband left. She has no money at home and begs Smirnov to wait. The polite conversation turns quickly into an argument. Popova fetches the pistols. Smirnov realizes now that he’s in love with Popova. He confesses his love.

title: Fear

overview: The movie based on the story by Anton Chekhov

title: An Evening's Trail

overview: A solitary taxi driver roams the streets of Prague with his dog, searching for someone willing to hear him express his sorrow over a personal tragedy. Over a day and night, he picks up three different groups of passengers, but is mere companionship enough to ease his grief?

title: The Student

overview: A short film version of the Anton Chekhov story.

title: Affair of honnor

title: Fish Day

title: An Artist's Story

overview: An Artist's Story concerns the confrontation of ideas between Anton, a young landscape painter, and Lydia, a young aristocratic girl who devotes her life to good works.

title: The Vanishing Field

overview: Disenchanted with the corruption of society, Jacob joins a Zen monastery. One day his meditation practice ignites a spontaneous out of body experience, compelling him to explore the more esoteric dimension of astral travel where he discovers bizarre new worlds that shake and alter the very ground of his being.

title: Chorister

overview: The noble wife of a noble husband comes to his ignoble mistress.

title: My Husband

overview: Otto bemoans the strife of loving (and loathing) his handsome spouse.

place_of_birth: Taganrog, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]

title: Kaštanka

title: Vanya on 42nd Street

title: Ivanov

title: Medvěd

title: Starostlivý otec

title: Three Years

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Medvěd

title: Tři sestry

title: Podzimní slunce

title: Podzimní slunce

title: All Forgotten

title: Swan Song

title: Koe-chto iz Gubernskoy Zhizni

original_title: Кое-что из губернской жизни

title: Key Witness

original_title: Главный свидетель

title: Crise de nerfs

title: Il matrimonio

title: Il matrimonio

title: Der jähzornige junge Mann

title: Labutí píseň

title: Labutí píseň

title: Navštívenka

title: Zločin a trik I.

title: Na zapřenou

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: Medvěd

original_title: Дачний чоловік, або Трагік мимоволі

title: Hollywood Seagull

title: Román o base

title: Chameleón

title: Bahno

title: Uncle Vanya

title: The Death of a Government Clerk

original_title: Смерть чиновника

title: Jubileum

title: Wedding

title: Ward No. 6

title: Ujo Váňa

title: La Cerisaie

title: About Love

title: Upheaval

title: Zlodeji

title: Prelietavka

title: Nepriatelia

title: The Seagull

title: My Tender and Affectionate Beast

original_title: Мой ласковый и нежный зверь

title: The Duel

original_title: Плохой хороший человек

title: An Unfinished Piece for Player Piano

title: Lady with the Dog

original_title: Дама с собачкой

title: August

title: Liberal

title: From Every Man I Loved

title: Jeden ze soubojů

title: Dead End

title: Colorful Stories

original_title: Пёстрые рассказы

title: The Seagull

title: Surgery

title: Ragin

title: Ivanov

title: Rostislav Plyatt Reads Chekhov

original_title: Ростислав Плятт читает Чехова

title: Platonov

title: The Seagull

title: Toto and the Kings of Rome

title: Il prigioniero

title: Three Sisters

title: The Harmfulness of Tobacco

title: Višňový sad

title: Hôtel de France

title: The Witch

title: An Event

title: Love and Fear

title: Anton Chekhov's The Duel

title: The Lottery Ticket

original_title: Выигрышный билет

title: Gooseberry

title: The Orchard

title: Eccentrics

title: Revenge

title: Agáta

title: Little Lili

title: Joker

title: Black Sabbath

title: Racek

title: Revenger

title: Romance with a Double Bass

title: Two Souls

title: Obyčajný príbeh

title: It Can Pass Through the Wall

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Still Alice

title: Chekhov's Pages

original_title: Чеховские страницы

title: Le Rustre et le Juge

title: Agafia

title: Courtship

title: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand

title: Ward Six

title: The Bride

title: Afternoon

title: The Sea Gull

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: Dark Eyes

title: Frieriet

title: The Steppe

title: Hasičský plášť

title: Three Sisters

title: A Joke

title: The Bad Boy

original_title: Злой мальчик

title: An Uneventful Story

title: Chekhov's Vaudevilles

original_title: Водевили Чехова

title: Labutí píseň

title: Rain

title: Ward Six

title: Måsen

title: The Seagull

title: The Seagull

title: The Apple Trees

title: The Wood Demon

title: Requiem

title: National Theatre Live: Vanya

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: The Man In The Case

original_title: Людина в футлярі

title: The Bear

title: Švédská zápalka

title: Svatba s generálem

title: The Cherry Orchard

original_title: Колечко золотое, букет из алых роз

title: Onkel Vanja

title: Summer Storm

title: Kasba

title: Pharmacist

title: Námluvy

title: Days and Nights

title: Racek

title: The Seagull

title: The Roundabout

title: Tears the World Can't See

title: The Sisters

title: Long Live... Mice!

original_title: Да здравствуют... мыши!

title: Drama on the Hunt

original_title: Драма на охоте

title: Belated Flowers

original_title: Цветы запоздалые

title: Country Life

title: Story of the Bass Cello

title: The Three Sisters

title: Seagull

title: If Only I Knew...

original_title: Если бы знать...

title: Three Sisters

title: To Stumble

title: Švédska zápalka

title: Junior Lieutenant

title: Jubileum

title: Medvěd

title: National Theatre Live: The Seagull

title: La Mouette

title: Onkel Vanja

title: The Black Monk

title: Lawlessness

title: Three Sisters

title: Drama on the Hunt

original_title: Драма на охоте

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Ivanov

title: Too Salty

title: Too Salty

title: Rozprávanie pani N. N.

title: The Seagull

title: The Wife

title: Onkel Wanja

title: Tobakkens uheldige virkninger

title: Borgerlig lykke

title: Ward No. 6

original_title: Палата номер шесть

title: Cards

title: The Seagull

title: Ark of Fools

title: Vint

title: Man in a Shell

original_title: Человек в футляре

title: The Anna Cross

title: Morning

title: The Diary of an Old Man

title: After Anyuta

title: Morning

title: Drei Schwestern

title: Drei Schwestern

title: Platonow

title: Drei Schwestern

title: A Joke

title: The Steppe

title: Drama in the Barber’s Shop

original_title: Драма в цирюльне

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Sala nr 6

title: Huntsman

title: Маска

title: The Bad Boy

title: The Black Monk

original_title: Чёрный монах

title: Romance with a Double Bass

original_title: Роман с контрабасом

title: The Grasshopper

title: Ranks and People

title: Superfluous People

title: Story of an Unknown Man

original_title: Рассказ неизвестного человека

title: The Safety Match

original_title: Шведская спичка

title: Funny People!

original_title: Смешные люди!

title: Vanka Zhukov

original_title: Ванька Жуков

title: Drama

title: Vanka

original_title: Эти разные, разные, разные лица

title: Three Years

title: Big Volodya, Small Volodya

original_title: Володя большой, Володя маленький

title: Huntsman

title: Flowers Belated

original_title: Цветы запоздалые

title: Ladies

title: The Trial

title: Soft-Boiled Boots

original_title: Сапоги всмятку

title: Soft-Boiled Boots

original_title: Сапоги всмятку

title: The House with the Mezzanine

original_title: Дом с мезонином

title: Chekhovian Motifs

original_title: Чеховские мотивы

title: Chekhovian Motifs

original_title: Чеховские мотивы

title: The Kiss

title: Kashtanka

title: Work of Art

original_title: Произведение искусства

title: Exam for Rank

original_title: Экзамен на чин

title: Kashtanka

title: Boots

title: Family Happiness

original_title: Семейное счастье

title: The Cherry Orchard

original_title: Вишнёвый сад

title: Duel

title: Iniquity

title: Belated Flowers

original_title: Цветы запоздалые

title: The Guardian

title: A Swan Song

original_title: Лебединая песня

title: Kashtanka

title: Enemies

title: The Seagull

title: The Seagull

title: Anyuta

title: Mamad

title: Jubilee

title: From the Life of a Zemstvo Doctor

original_title: Из жизни земского врача

title: The Teacher of Literature

original_title: Учитель словесности

title: Večer Čechovových aktovek

title: Slzy, které svět nevidí

title: Labutí píseň

title: The Three Sisters

title: Na letním bytě

title: In the Town of S.

title: FUGAKU 2 / The SEAGULL The Shots

title: The Witch

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Onkel Wanja

title: National Theatre Live: Three Sisters

title: The Cherry Orchard

original_title: Вишневый сад

title: From Chekhov with Love

title: Taper

title: On the Way

title: The Three Sisters

title: The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka

title: Three Sisters

title: Tři sestry

title: Boty

title: Хористка

title: Анюта

title: Хороший конец

original_title: Хороший конец

title: Верочка

title: Переполох

title: Воры

title: Детвора

title: Контрабас и флейта

original_title: Контрабас и флейта

title: Смерть чиновника

original_title: Смерть чиновника

title: Беззащитное существо

original_title: Беззащитное существо

title: At the Dacha

title: Jubileum

title: Námluvy

title: The Leshy

title: Uncle Vanya

title: In the Rooms

title: Dacha Life

original_title: Дачная жизнь

title: Uncle Vanya

title: Swan Song

original_title: Лебединая песня

title: Dráma

title: The Seagull

title: The Seagull

title: The Cherry Orchard

original_title: Вишневый сад

title: The Heavenly Wanderers

original_title: Небесные странники

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: Wedding

title: La Douce

title: The End of the Season

original_title: Конец сезона

title: You're The Boss!

title: Three Years

title: The Cherry Orchard

original_title: Вишнёвый сад

title: Deary

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: Little Lili

title: Ottaal

title: Nalim

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: Racek

title: National Theatre Live: The Seagull

title: Nina

title: Brace Up!

title: The Seagull

title: Il gabbiano

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: If Only the Trains Came

title: The Bear

title: La Sorcière

title: Les Trois Sœurs

title: Ivanov

title: On the Harmfulness of Tobacco

title: Ivanov

title: Sonata

title: Three Sisters

title: Three Sisters

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: Anyuta

title: Cseresznyéskert

title: The Good Doctor

title: Les Trois Sœurs

title: Zinotchka

title: Romance with a Double Bass

title: Platonov

title: Uncle Vanya

title: The Three Sisters

title: Drama na lovu

title: The Wedding

title: Björnen

title: The Three Sisters

title: The Seagull

title: Psychopaths

title: The Proposal

title: La Cerisaie

title: The Bass Player

title: About Love

title: Backstage Story

title: The Little Theater

title: The Cherry Orchard

title: Il Giardino Dei Ciliegi (Leonardo Lidi)

title: Zio Vanja

title: The seagull - the movie

title: The seagull

title: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard

title: La tragedia è finita, Platonov

title: Wrecker

title: Atti unici

title: The Bear

title: Fear

title: An Evening's Trail

title: The Student

title: Affair of honnor

title: Fish Day

title: An Artist's Story

title: The Vanishing Field

title: Chorister

title: My Husband