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Director:
Writers:
Anton Chekhov (play)
Constance Garnett (translation)
Release Date:
23 November 1964 (Sweden) more
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. more
NewsDesk:
(20 articles)
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 (From The Guardian - Film News. 14 November 2009, 4:06 PM, PST)

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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Michael Redgrave ... Uncle Vanya
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Max Adrian ... Prof. Alexander Serebryakov
Lewis Casson ... Telyegin
Fay Compton ... Marya, the mother

Rosemary Harris ... Yelena
Robert Lang ... Yefim

Laurence Olivier ... Dr. Astrov
Joan Plowright ... Sonya
Sybil Thorndike ... Marina, the nurse
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Additional Details

Runtime:
120 min | Sweden:110 min
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In the U.S., the film premiered on television, not in theatres. This made it eligible for Emmy Awards rather than Oscars. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as Onkel Vanja (1971) (TV) more

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How brilliantly the heart can ache., 1 January 2007
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Author: bobchico from Illinois

Executed in a traditional theatrical style devoted to the text and the Staislavsky school, this production may seem static to modern viewers. Most contemporary stagings of Chekov plays display pronounced movements to demonstrate relationships and emotional states, often involving physical contact between the characters that would have been deemed boorish during the rural Tsarist Russia of the play's setting. This forthright filming of the 1963 National Theatre production conveys the Chekovian mastery of self-doubt, longing and wishfulness through smaller gestures and voice. The key voices are Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier at the peaks of their greatness.

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