Anton Chekhov Movies

From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as...

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Elena.

Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga...

Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and what might have been. He has spent his life toiling for the benefit of the...

Based on the story of the same name by A.P. Chekhov.

A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, the student was to spend 15 years in solitary...

Uncle Vanya is a tragic comedy of lost hopes, stifled passions and wasted lives. Vanya is a bitter, sarcastic man, obsessed with his wasted years and...

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see...

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force...

A short movie based on Anton Chekhov novels.

A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still...

A romantic comedy based on an Anton Chekhov play of the same name. A young man comes to collect a debt owed to him by the widow Popova's late...

An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who's terrified of the young suicide in their building.

Dramatic story about two young men, two intellectuals of the 1890th. It is a story about a complex human character. Being tortured by ignorance and...

A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.