The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard
Release: 1962-04-17
·Runtime: 128m
·★ 8.0
Drama
TV Movie
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that 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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC
Royal Shakespeare Company
Cast
Peggy Ashcroft
as Madame Ranevsky
John Gielgud
as Gaev
Judi Dench
as Anya
Dorothy Tutin
as Varya
Ian Holm
as Trofimov
Patsy Byrne
as Dunyasha
Patrick Wymark
as Semion Panteleyevich Epihodov
Patience Collier
as Charlotta Ivanovna
Roy Dotrice
as Firs
David Buck
as Yasha
Russell Hunter
as Coachman
Bill Wallis
as Stationmaster
Georgina Ward
as Peasant
