Three Sisters
Time Out says
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.
Details
Release details
Duration:
165 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Laurence Olivier
Cast:
Jeanne Watts
Joan Plowright
Louise Purnell
Derek Jacobi
Alan Bates
Kenneth Mackintosh
Sheila Reid
Laurence Olivier
Ronald Pickup
Frank Wylie
Joan Plowright
Louise Purnell
Derek Jacobi
Alan Bates
Kenneth Mackintosh
Sheila Reid
Laurence Olivier
Ronald Pickup
Frank Wylie