Movie
The Cherry Orchard
1981 · 130 min
A quiet, beautifully acted chamber piece that lingers on loss and change with bittersweet melancholy.
- Directed by
- Richard Eyre
- Genres
- Drama, Tv movie
- Starring
- Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Anton Lesser
- Overview
- Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Class, family, memory, identity
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Richard Eyre
- Genres
- Drama, Tv movie
- Starring
- Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Anton Lesser
