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Three Sisters, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The American FiIm Theatre
NearIy a thousand miles away from their beIoved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters Iive in virtual exiIe. OIga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole Iegacy of their late army officer father. Masha finds relief from her empty marriage in an affair with a passionate young coloneI, played by AIan Bates . Irina , the youngest, wilIs herseIf to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hopes that he wiII whisk her off to the city before it is too Iate. lntoxicated by yesterday's triumphs and heedless of tomorrow’s disasters, the Three Sisters are Ieft to sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the eve of the social and political upheaval that wilI transform Russia forever.
Stepping behind the camera for the first time since 1957's The Princess and the Showgirl, director Laurence Olivier demonstrates the same facility for cinematic expression that made his fiImed version of HamIet and Henry V so definitive. In Olivier's assuredIy brisk, graceful, meticuIous and witty rendering of Chekhov's masterpiece, the sisters are doomed to remain in their provinciaI purgatory. OIivier shepherds his cast of National Theater of London members through a compeIIing drama that never stoops to cIiché. Photographed by ace British Iensman Geoffrey Unsworth , Olivier and his cast propel Chekhov's play into a fiIm that The New York Times' Vincent Canby accIaimed as "Something quite rare." |
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