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Title Three sisters / an Alan Clone production, a film by Laurence Olivier ; the American Film Theatre ; British Lion ; Alan Clore Films ; producer, Jack Goldstone ; translator, Moura Budberg ; director, Laurence Olivier.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Kino on Video, [2003]
©1970

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD THREE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD THRE    Check Shelf
Edition Letterboxed edition (1.85:1).
Description 1 videodisc (162 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Series American Film Theatre. Collection 2.
American Film Theatre. Collection 2.
System Details DVD, Region 1 encoding.
Cast Alan Bates, Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright, Louise Purnell, Laurence Olivier, Derek Jacobi, National Theatre Company of England.
Credits Director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.
Based on the play by Anton Chekhov.
"American Film Theatre collection two."
Audience MPAA rating: PG.
Summary Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, three sisters live in virtual exile. Olga attempts to support her family and home that is the sole legacy from their late father. Masha finds relief from an empty marriage by being involved with a passionate young colonel. Irina wills herself to return the affections of an ardent suitor in the hope that he will whisk her off to the city. Sift through the debris of their shattered dreams on the eve of the social and political upheaval that will transform Russia forever.
Note Special features: an interview with Alan Bates; theatrical trailer; "Anton Chekhov and Three sisters," an essay by Michael Feingold, Chief Theatre Critic, The Village Voice; The AFT cinebill for Three sisters; stills gallery; The American Film Theatre scrapbook.
Contents A spring afternoon -- An extravagant present -- Our lives -- Superfluous knowledge -- Irina's birthday -- "How deceptive life can be" -- "I love..." -- "Let's philosophize" -- "Let's make peace" -- "Moscow, Moscow" -- A cruel Natasha -- "Maybe I'm not a man at all" -- "You are a remarkable woman" -- Confessions -- A dream -- Happiness --A duel -- Wives -- "Everything comes to an end" -- "Let us live".
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Sisters -- Russia -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917 -- Drama.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Added Author Goldstone, John.
Budberg, Moura.
Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989.
Bates, Alan, 1934-2003.
Watts, Jeanne.
Plowright, Joan.
Purnell, Louise, 1942-
Jacobi, Derek.
Unsworth, Geoffrey, 1914-1978.
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Tri sestry. English.
National Theatre (Great Britain)
American Film Theatre.
British Lion Films.
Alan Clore Films.
Kino International Corporation.
Note Title on container: Anton Chekhov's Three sisters
Standard No. 738329028923
Music No. K289 DVD Kino on Video
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