Synopsis
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a wealthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherry orchard and dividing the estate into plots that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Richard EyreDirector
- Helen RappaportWriter
- Trevor GriffithsWriter
- Nick BicâtOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Judi DenchMme. Ranevsky
- Bill PatersonLopakhin
- Anton LesserTrofimov
- Harriet WalterVarya
- Suzanne BurdenAnya
- Frederick TrevesGayev
- Timothy SpallEpikhodov
- Frances LowDunyasha
- David RintoulYasha
- Anna MasseyCharlotte
- Paul CurranFirs
- Wensley PitheyPischik