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Director: Laurence Olivier
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From Time Out Film Guide
Olivier's painfully stagebound record of the 1967 National Theatre production of Chekhov's play, in which he himself took a comparative back seat as Chebutikin. Two fantasy sequences are added as a sop to cinema (one of them a redundant visualisation of Irina's wish-fulfilment dream of Moscow as a paradise of glittering ballrooms and theatres). Moments of passion survive from Joan Plowright's Masha; otherwise it's a catalogue of pregnant pauses from which all Chekhovian intent has long since ebbed away.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Laurence Olivier
Producer: John Goldstone
Cast: Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell, Derek Jacobi, Alan Bates, Kenneth Mackintosh, Sheila Reid, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Pickup, Frank Wylie full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 165 mins
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