Uncle Vanya (1957)

Directed by

John Goetz, Franchot Tone

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a film version of Chekhov's play about a family on a rural estate. Frustrations and unspoken longings boil over during a visit from a retired professor and his young wife.

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What happens

Uncle Vanya is a 1957 American film adaptation of the 1899 play Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. Filmed concurrently with an Off Broadway production, it was both co-produced and co-directed by actor Franchot Tone, who starred as Dr. Astroff. Tone's wife at the time, Dolores Dorn-Heft, co-starred as Elena Andreevna, appearing in the only role not featuring an actor from the stage version in New York, where the part was played by Signe Hasso. The title role was played by George Voskovec. Edited from Stark Young's translation of Chekhov's Russian text, the film runs 98 minutes. It was released on DVD in June, 2010. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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