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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian playwright and writer, whose plays received international acclaim, and who as a short-story writer is still regarded as virtually unmatched. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov was a physician by profession. "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
The son of a former serf, Chekhov started out supporting his family by writing popular comic sketches as a medicine student. While practicing as a doctor, he produced his first full-length play, Ivanov (1887). He took up serious themes with stories such as “The Steppe” (1888) and “A Dreary Story” (1889); later stories include “Ward Number Six” (1892), “The Black Monk” (1894) and “The Lady with the Dog” (1899). His play The Seagull (1896) was badly received until its successful revival in 1899 by Konstantin Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre. After this he converted his earlier work The Wood Demon (1889) into the universally acclaimed play Uncle Vanya (1897). To nurse his eventually fatal tuberculosis he moved to the Crimea, where he wrote his famous last plays, Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904).
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01 January 1992
An aging actor remembers his past stage triumphs and contemplates a dim future on the stage of an empty theatre.
01 January 2006
This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of a maid who leaves her husband and baby for Singapore.
01 January 1966
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful.
01 January 1986
Raissa is unhappy with her husband and enamored with the young postman. The husband, Savely, accuses his wife of being a witch because of all the young men who keep disappearing and accuses her of using her witchcraft on the postman.
06 March 1962
Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds.
27 October 1994
Adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920s. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London.
27 October 1977
Screen adaptation of the two-part play "Chekhov's Pages" staged by the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky based on one-act plays and stories by A.
08 November 2004
A sad story about life and love as it told by Grigori Stepanovich Smirnov who is trying to find what caused the suicide of young 15 years old Volodya.
01 January 1978
Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.
25 February 1954
An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
15 April 1995
A young man Lomov comes to propose to his neighbour Natalya but they keep on fighting over various topics.
22 April 2017
What if Konstantin Gavrilovich, from Anton Chekkov's famous play, did not commit suicide and was murdered instead? And who did it? Boris Akunin's take on The Seagull unfolds as a comedic murder mystery.
01 September 1999
Three "miniatures" touching on romantic relationships between men and women from different perspectives.
14 July 1972
A short love affair of young married woman and police inspector in winter resort will turn into fatal love after chance meeting.
06 June 2009
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum.
29 January 1960
Lev Savvitch Turmanov accidentally heard how his young colleague spoke disparagingly of him, and ignited a thirst for revenge.
27 August 2024
Should Nadia stay in her hometown amongst the familiar and her old friends? Or should she go abroad and study? One boy makes this decision especially hard to make.
01 January 1991
The story centers around a small town entrepreneur named Maniram who makes a major profit by cheating people and selling them tainted food.
06 November 2008
Based on Anton Chekhov's classic play, The Orchard is an eccentric comedy about class struggles in Russia at the turn of the 20th century.
01 January 1980
Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to marry her, but the relationship is not going to be simple.
29 November 2015
A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.
05 December 2014
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words.
01 January 2019
A stage production of Anton Chekhov's play at the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.
15 January 1961
Will a young widow's determination to spend the rest of her life alone hold up when an uncouth but nevertheless attractive man bursts into her house? An adaptation of Chekhov's play performed by Jan Werich and Stella Zázvorková.
01 April 1974
A staging of the play by Anton Chekhov at the Moscow Academic Art Theatre.
01 January 1996
The moral suffering of the lieutenant who unknowingly sneezes on the head of the general.
01 January 1967
The love triangle: wife, husband and his mistress, amusingly crumbles because the loving writer is fleetingly infatuated with a third woman, young and inexperienced, rightly believing that an artist needs a muse every day, not a wife and mistress.
05 December 2019
The touching drama “The End of the Season” tells the life story of three sisters and is inspired by the same-name play by Anton Chekhov.
12 February 1960
9-year-old boy complains about his hard life in a letter to his grandfather.
01 January 1974
A bassist shows up early for the betrothal ball of a beautiful princess, and whiles away the time having a dip in the river.
13 December 1984
A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, the student was to spend 15 years in solitary confinement.
01 January 1967
A young subordinate of a general pays him a visit with the purpose of asking for the hand of his niece.
23 December 2004
Based on a short story Room number 6 by Chekhov. A doctor taking particular interest in his mental health patients ends up institutionalized himself.
02 July 1977
A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of character.
27 August 2003
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films.
07 March 2002
A neurotic and overly-presumptuous mother accuses her family's au pair of stealing a cherished heirloom, much to the chagrin of her husband.
18 September 2001
A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.
01 January 1960
A famous writer's long-awaited nap is interrupted by a visit from an aspiring playwright who wishes to show him her latest drama.
19 March 1999
The last play directed by Hanoch Levin. The plot follows three grieving characters: The Old Man, The Mother, and The Mule Driver, as they look for remedy from passers-by and confront the realities of death and the loss of their loved ones.
01 January 1991
An adaptation of a Chekhov monologue about a hen-pecked schoolmaster forced by his domineering wife to lecture at a Women's Institute meeting on the evils of smoking, but instead finds himself looking back on his failed life.
