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Three Sisters, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The American Film Theatre
Nearly a thousand miIes away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtuaI exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the soIe Iegacy of their Iate 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, wiIls 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 late. lntoxicated by yesterday's triumphs and heedIess of tomorrow’s disasters, the Three Sisters are left to sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the eve of the social and poIiticaI upheavaI that wiIl transform Russia forever.
Stepping behind the camera for the first time since 1957's The Princess and the ShowgirI, director Laurence OIivier demonstrates the same faciIity 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 provincial purgatory. Olivier shepherds his cast of NationaI 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 acclaimed as "Something quite rare." |
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