The Three Sisters
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Cast & Crew
Samson Samsonov
Lyubov Sokolova
Margarita Volodina
Tatyana Malchenko
Leonid Gubanov
Alla Larionova
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Synopsis
In the late 1890's the three Prozorov sisters are living in a provincial Russian garrison town; 11 years have passed since their father, an army officer who has since died, was transferred to the town from Moscow. Well educated, they are bored with their monotonous lives and long to return to Moscow, though they are prevented from doing so by their financial circumstances. Olga, the spinsterish eldest sister, teaches school. Masha, the middle sister, is unhappily married to the local schoolmaster, Kulygin, and secretly loves Colonel Vershinin, the new battery commander, whose home life is equally unhappy. Irina, the high-spirited youngest sister, is eventually forced to take a dull job in a telegraph office. The women's brother, Andrey, abandons his university studies when he marries a scheming and unfaithful local girl, Natalya, who takes over the management of the household. Masha enters into an illicit affair with Vershinin; and Irina and Olga gloomily face the realization that they probably will never return to Moscow. Their hopes are completely shattered when Andrey, deep in gambling debts, mortgages the family home and allows Natalya to handle the mortgage money. The following winter, after a fire has swept through the town, the army regiment is moved out of the garrison. Hoping to salvage her life, Irina agrees to marry Baron Tuzenbakh, whom she does not love, but he is killed in a duel. Once the regiment has left and Masha has bid goodby to her beloved Vershinin, the three sisters embrace as Olga wonders aloud if their suffering will ever turn to joy.
Director
Samson Samsonov
Cast
Lyubov Sokolova
Margarita Volodina
Tatyana Malchenko
Leonid Gubanov
Alla Larionova
Lev Ivanov
Leonid Gallis
Konstantin Sorokin
Oleg Strizhenov
Vladimir Druzhnikov
L. Konstantinova
P. Vinnik
V. Stepanov
Boris Smirnov
N. Lubko
G. Dudarev
Crew
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Released in the U.S.S.R. in 1964 as Tri sestry.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1970
Released in United States August 26, 1970
Shown at Venice Film Festival August 26, 1970.
Released in United States 1970
Released in United States August 26, 1970 (Shown at Venice Film Festival August 26, 1970.)
