Set in Russia in the year 1900, the adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s famous play chronicles a noblewoman’s return to her family estate after a five-year absence. She finds that the family fortune has dwindled to practically nothing, and that she and her brother are faced with the difficult choice of selling the family’s treasured cherry orchard or losing everything. Peggy Ashcroft as Liubóv Ranyévskaya, Judi Dench as Anya, Dorothy Tutin as Varya and John Gielgud as Gáyev.
Starring Judi Dench, Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Dorothy Tutin.
Not rated.