Platonov
- Folge lief am 23. Mai 1971
- 2 Std.
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6,4/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA brilliant fellow, Platonov, and he might be a good husband, too - if only women would let him.A brilliant fellow, Platonov, and he might be a good husband, too - if only women would let him.A brilliant fellow, Platonov, and he might be a good husband, too - if only women would let him.
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- WissenswertesThis sad comedy was Chekhov's first play, written at the age of twenty-one. Its author was so dissatisfied with it that he stuffed its manuscript into the bottom of a drawer in his bureau, made no effort to get it staged and - possibly - forgot about it. The manuscript was not discovered until after Chekhov's death, and there was no production of it in Great Britain until 1960, when it was produced with huge success at London's Royal Court Theater. Rex Harrison enjoyed a great personal success in the title role and repeated it for this television production of eleven years later.
- VerbindungenVersion of Unvollendetes Stück für ein mechanisches Klavier (1977)
Ausgewählte Rezension
A lot of fun, impressively done
A BBC Play of the Month. A good example of Chekhov's cheerful skewering of the upper and bourgeois classes with wit, edge and humor. Very impressive for a first full length play (although I've read this two hour version is edited way down from a script almost 3 times as long – which would have been quite hard to take).
Rex Harrison plays Platonov, an intellectual, teacher and sharp tongued ex-soldier who seems to have women throwing themselves at him left and right. Harrison is excellent and great fun, but arguably a bit long in the tooth for Platonov – he was 63 when this was made. But he makes it work with his warm, perversely fatherly charm.
The whole cast is strong, crucial to any Chekhov play working. Patsy Byrne is wonderful as Platonov's unsophisticated wife who manages not to see her husband for the cad he is, until it's too late. Sian Phillips is terrific as Anna, a sort of proto-feminist who desires Platonov, but only on her own terms.
In the end, it's a comedy (with a touch of tragedy) about how hypocritical we can be when it comes to matters of our heart (and loins). You can clearly see Chekhov's influence on, for example, some of Woody Allen's comedies. The production is fairly rudimentary technically, not pretending to be more than a filmed play, but that doesn't stop it from being highly enjoyable.
Rex Harrison plays Platonov, an intellectual, teacher and sharp tongued ex-soldier who seems to have women throwing themselves at him left and right. Harrison is excellent and great fun, but arguably a bit long in the tooth for Platonov – he was 63 when this was made. But he makes it work with his warm, perversely fatherly charm.
The whole cast is strong, crucial to any Chekhov play working. Patsy Byrne is wonderful as Platonov's unsophisticated wife who manages not to see her husband for the cad he is, until it's too late. Sian Phillips is terrific as Anna, a sort of proto-feminist who desires Platonov, but only on her own terms.
In the end, it's a comedy (with a touch of tragedy) about how hypocritical we can be when it comes to matters of our heart (and loins). You can clearly see Chekhov's influence on, for example, some of Woody Allen's comedies. The production is fairly rudimentary technically, not pretending to be more than a filmed play, but that doesn't stop it from being highly enjoyable.
hilfreich•30
- runamokprods
- 1. Mai 2014
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