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Three Sisters (2017)
Director: Yuri Grymov
Cast: Lyudmila Polyakova, Anna Kamenkova, Irina Mazurkevich, Maksim Sukhanov
Runtime133 min
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Preserving the text of the play, the amazing dialogues, the brilliant characters, we have transposed the action into today’s Russian provinces and changed only one thing: the age of the heroes. In Anton Chekhov’s play the heroines are aged around 25; now they are 55. What does that do? The heroes’ retorts, stylistically inappropriate from today’s twenty-year-olds, are absolutely organic for the older generation, the ‘Soviet’ intelligentsia. The problems of Chekhov’s classical work concerning the search for a meaning in life, the loss of ideals, the fear before death without having achieved anything in the world, the desire to be useful to others – all these things are also a typical attribute of the Soviet intelligentsia.
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Three Sisters (2017), directed by Yuri Grymov, is a drama that transposes the action of Chekhov's classic play into the modern Russian provinces, with the heroines now aged 55 instead of 25. Critics have praised the film's preservation of Chekhov's brilliant dialogues and character portraits, finding the older protagonists' struggles with the search for meaning, loss of ideals, and fear of death to be an organic fit for the 'Soviet' intelligentsia.