Anton Chekhov Movies

This program features three digital short films by Asian filmmakers. Singapore veteran filmmaker Eric Khoo's NO DAY OFF (39 min) records the life of...

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man...

A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800s Russia.

At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.

Three friends from a wet neighbourhood come back from the pub properly stoned and decide to continue partying at the home of one of them, because he...

Three "miniatures" touching on romantic relationships between men and women from different perspectives. Matěj, a young vegetable garden guard...

Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull" is brought to life in this acclaimed 1975 production directed by John Desmond. Seeking to reform the theater,...

An adaptation of a Chekhov monologue about a hen-pecked schoolmaster forced by his domineering wife to lecture at a Women's Institute meeting on the...

Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own...

A revolution breaks out, caused by a financial crisis, business intrigues and corresponding natural disasters. Alexander flees from the uprising in...

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see...

A sad story about life and love as it told by Grigori Stepanovich Smirnov who is trying to find what caused the suicide of young 15 years old Volodya.

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Elena.

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force...

It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and...