Anton Chekhov Collection (Full Frame)
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"The Anton Chekhov Collection" Includes: "Platonov ('71)": Play adapted from fragments of Chekhov's first full-length play, sometimes known as the "Play without a Name" or "Fatherlessness." Platonov is a village schoolteacher whose high ideals and unflagging criticism of provincial life render him irresistible to the women he meets. With Rex Harrison, Sian Phillips and Clive Revill. "The Wood Demon": Play adapted for TV with Ian Holm and Francesca Annis. It is Leo Zheltukhin's birthday, and friends and neighbors are joining him for lunch. "The Proposal ('59)": One-act play about the tendency of wealthy families to seek other wealthy families to increase their estates by encouraging marriages that made good economic sense. "The Wedding (61)": Story adapted for TV. A bridegroom's plans to have a general attend his wedding ceremony backfire when the general turns out to be a "lowly" naval captain. "The Seagull ('78)": Play adapted for TV in which a struggling writer Konstantin becomes enamored by a visiting young actress Nina. With Anthony Bate, Stephen Rea and Michael Gambon. "An Artist's Story ('74)": A film adaptation of the Chekhov short story in which an artist bored with country life challenges a charity worker's ideals. With Patrick Stewart. "Uncle Vanya ('70)": Play adapted for TV with Anthony Hopkins, Freddie Jones and Ann Bell. When your life has been spent supporting a distinguished relative, what do you do when he turns out to be not so distinguished after all? "Uncle Vanya ('91)": Studio production of Chekov's wistful masterpiece with David Warner as the retired prof whose return sets in motion a typically Chekovian comic tragedy of lost hopes, stifled passion and belighted ideas. With Ian Bannen, Ian Holm, Rachel Kempson and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.