Story of movie Three Sisters 1970 Olivier Film :
Three Sisters is a 1970 British drama film starring Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright, based on the 1900 play by Anton Chekhov. Olivier also directed, with co-director John Sichel; it was the final feature film directed by Olivier. The film was based on a 1967 theatre production that Olivier had directed at the Royal National Theatre. Both the theatrical production and the film used the translation from the original Russian by Moura Budberg. The film was released in the U.S. in 1974 as part of the American Film Theatre. This was a series of thirteen film adaptations of stage plays shown to subscribers at about 500 movie theaters across the country.
| Three Sisters | |
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| Directed by | Laurence Olivier John Sichel |
| Produced by | John Goldstone |
| Screenplay by | Moura Budberg (trans.) |
| Based on | Three Sisters (play) by Anton Chekhov |
| Starring | Alan Bates Laurence Olivier Joan Plowright Derek Jacobi |
| Music by | William Walton |
| Cinematography | Geoffrey Unsworth |
| Edited by | Jack Harris |
| Distributed by | British Lion Films American Film Theatre |
Release date | 2 November 1970 (UK) 4 February 1974 (US) |
Running time | 165 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Screenplay
- Jeanne Watts .... Olga
- Joan Plowright .... Masha
- Louise Purnell .... Irina
- Derek Jacobi .... Andrei
- Sheila Reid .... Natasha
- Kenneth MacKintosh .... Kulighin
- Daphne Heard .... Anfisa
- Judy Wilson .... Serving maid
- Mary Griffiths .... Housemaid
- Ronald Pickup .... Baron Tusenbach
- Laurence Olivier .... Dr. Ivan Chebutikin
- Frank Wylie .... Maj. Vassili Vassilich Solyony
- Alan Bates .... Col. Vershinin
- Richard Kay .... Lt. Fedotik
The film was apparently not widely reviewed in either its 1970 British nor its 1974 US releases. Following the US release, the prominent critic Judith Crist wrote, "Once again we are faced with a neither-film-nor-play production, but it is, in Moura Budberg's liberal but satisfying translation and under Olivier's semi-cinematic direction, one at very least to fascinate devotees of the play. ... Through several performance, in Geoffrey Unsworth's luscious cinematography (and I mean the adjective in praise of the uncluttered and naturally generated flow his work deserves), and in the pacing there is somehow a sensuality and a sexuality underlying the work that I had not hitherto felt." Molly Haskell wrote that the film "boasts in Joan Plowright's Masha the finest performance I have seen or ever hope to see of one of Chekhov's greatest women characters."
The film was first released as a region 1 DVD in 2004. A Blu-ray version was released in the US in 2017.
- The Three Sisters (1970 film), a 1970 English language television film for television
- Three Sisters (1994 film), a 1994 Russian language film
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