Overview

By Anton Chekhov

Directed by Andrei Malaev-Babel

Chekhov’s brilliant portrait of a society poised on the verge of the 20th century. The gorgeous and charming Madame Ranevskaya along with her entire family and retinue return to their family home in order to save it from being auctioned off, and over the course of a long weekend, find themselves incapable of saving their estate from falling into the hands of a young and ambitious son of a former serf. A very funny and very moving look at a country slowly and inexorably moving into the modern age.