Uncle Vanya (1970 film)

Uncle Vanya
Directed by	Andrey Konchalovskiy
Written by	Anton Chekhov (play Uncle Vanya) Andrey Konchalovskiy (screenplay)
Starring	Innokenti Smoktunovsky Sergei Bondarchuk Irina Kupchenko Irina Miroshnichenko Irina Anisimova-Wulf Vladimir Butenko Yekaterina Mazurova Nikolai Pastukhov Innokenti Smoktunovsky Vladimir Zeldin
Music by	Alfred Shnitke
Cinematography	Yevgeni Guslinsky Georgi Rerberg
Edited by	L. Pokrovskoi
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date	1970
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Uncle Vanya (Russian: Дядя Ваня, translit. Dyadya Vanya) is a 1970film adaptation of the Anton Chekhov play of the same title and directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy.

Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor's first wife, who manages the farm estate, and the local Doctor Astrov, both fall under Yelena's spell, while complaining of the endless ennui of their provincial existence. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Sofya, the Professor's daughter by his first wife, who works to keep the estate going with her uncle Vanya, meanwhile suffers from lack of esteem over what she sees as her own lack of beauty, and from an unrequited love for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a head when the Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sofya's home, to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.

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