Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Uncle Vanya [videorecording] / by Anton Chekhov ; British Home Entertainment presents in association with the Chichester Festival Theatre ; directed for the screen by Stuart Burge ; [produced by] Laurence Olivier.

Publisher, Date:

Long Branch, NJ : [Distributed by] Kultur, [200-?]

Description:

1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A film of the highly acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Anton Checkhov's play Uncle Vanya directed by and starring Laurence Olivier. Chekhov's portrayal of the frustrations and disillusions of advancing age and the numbing boredom of provincial life in 1890's Russia, is here effortlessly performed by probably the most talented and prestigious cast ever assembled for this work. An outstanding work of significant historical importance.

Subjects:

Older men -- Russia -- Drama.

Russian drama -- Translations into English.

Made-for-TV movies.

Other Author:

Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989.

Burge, Stuart.

Plowright, Joan.

Redgrave, Michael.

Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976.

Adrian, Max, 1902-1973.

Garnett, Constance, 1861-1946.