Anton Chekhov Movies

After the French defeat of 1870, Julia took three years to love Alexander, with whom she married for her fortune. Alas, when Julia wants to declare...

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

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...

A neurotic and overly-presumptuous mother accuses her family's au pair of stealing a cherished heirloom, much to the chagrin of her husband.

The story is about a nasty boy who blackmails his older sister and the young man who is in love with her.

A short movie based on Anton Chekhov novels.

A boy in Russia, circa 1900, makes a daunting trip from his home village to a school in the city.

The plague of civil war reached a provincial town, where several noble families were stuck waiting for a train. The joy of hope was replaced by...

A study of the mental breakdown of a doctor in a remote rural village. He believes himself intellectually superior to everyone except for a political...

The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a...

An obnoxious man ends up in court facing a familiar judge after a dispute over archery.

A huge house, a coffin house becomes a symbol of a wasted life, a repository of the secrets and mysteries of its inhabitants, a place of unfulfilled...

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

Anton Chekhov’s one-act comic play throws Elena Ivanonva Popova, a land-owning widow with dimples, on her cheeks up against Grigory...

A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden...