Adaptations - Chekov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw
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- DirectorJoseph LoseyStarsJane FondaEdward FoxTrevor HowardNora Helmer, years earlier, committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband, Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out and the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- DirectorPatrick GarlandStarsClaire BloomAnthony HopkinsRalph RichardsonYears ago, Nora Helmer (Claire Bloom) committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald (Sir Anthony Hopkins). Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsSteve McQueenBibi AnderssonCharles DurningA scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
- DirectorHenri SafranStarsLiv UllmannJeremy IronsLucinda JonesA loving family's world is shattered by an old friend's arrival, carrying a dark secret.
- DirectorTrevor NunnStarsGlenda JacksonTimothy WestPeter EyreHenrik Ibsen's enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale, a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class. If she had had more brains she would have thought her way out of it. If she had had more courage she would have bolted long ago with Løvborg, the only true creative force in the vicinity whose manuscript she burns in the stove as if she were aborting their unconceived child.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsWallace ShawnJulie HagertyLarry PineA successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsAnita BjörkUlf PalmeMärta DorffAn heiress begins to realize her attraction to one of her family's servants.
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsSaffron BurrowsPeter MullanMaria Doyle KennedyA footman seduces a count's daughter.
- DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiySergey BondarchukIrina KupchenkoThe ordinary life of the Russian provincial intellectuals seems to them gray and bleak. Are exceptions possible?
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsWallace ShawnPhoebe BrandGeorge GaynesNew York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsIya SavvinaAleksey BatalovNina AlisovaA love story among the nobility of the Russian Empire: a man and a woman, both married, fall in love.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJames MasonVanessa RedgraveSimone SignoretFilm adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th century.
- DirectorYuli KarasikStarsAlla DemidovaVladimir ChetverikovNikolai PlotnikovBased on Chekhov's homonymous play, "The Seagull" narrates the story of a disturbed family and their acquaintances during summertime in the countryside.
- DirectorMichael MayerStarsAnnette BeningCorey StollGlenn FleshlerIn the early twentieth century, an aging actress and her lover visit the estate of her elderly brother.
- DirectorSamson SamsonovStarsSergey BondarchukLyudmila TselikovskayaVladimir DruzhnikovOsip Ivanovich 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.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsAleksandr KalyaginElena SoloveyEvgeniya GlushenkoIn Imperial Russia, the nobility has its own entertainments, disputes and worries.
- DirectorIosif KheifitsStarsAndrei PopovAnatoliy PapanovNonna Terentyeva"In the City of S." is a Soviet film adaptation of one of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's most famous short stories "Ionich". This is a story about a young promising doctor Dmitry Ionich Startsev, who moves to a county town where he was appointed a doctor. At first, the life of a budding newcomer in these parts was literally in full swing. He had a lot of new acquaintances and discoveries ahead of him. He met the Turkins, a well-known family in these parts, who were known in the district for their education. Over time, he began to visit them often, where he fell in love with the young Ekaterina Turkina. However, the ambitious girl did not want to stay further in the province and went to Moscow to enter the conservatory, refusing Startsev's offer. Ionich remained where it all began, sinking more and more into the abyss of a well-fed and sluggish existence.
- DirectorMichael BlakemoreStarsSam NeillGreta ScacchiJohn HargreavesAdaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920's. 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.
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsOleg KuznetsovNikolay TrofimovVladimir SedovA boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.
- DirectorEmil LoteanuStarsGalina BelyaevaOleg YankovskiyKirill LavrovA romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsLinda DarnellGeorge SandersAnna LeeAn alluring peasant woman lures a cynical aristocrat away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorMichael CacoyannisStarsCharlotte RamplingAlan BatesTushka BergenAbandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.
- DirectorRichard EyreStarsJudi DenchBill PatersonAnton LesserMadame Ranevsky (Dame Judi Dench) 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 (Bill Paterson), her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- DirectorGabriel PascalStarsClaude RainsVivien LeighStewart GrangerAt the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
- DirectorJoe LaytonStarsNorman WisdomNoël CowardEd AmesThe story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.