TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michael Cacoyannis
AU  - Michael Cacoyannis
AU  - Anton Chekhov
AU  - Charlotte Rampling
AU  - Alan Bates
AU  - Katrin Cartlidge
TI  - The Cherry Orchard
AV  - PN1997 .C447 2000
PY  - 2002///
CY  - France
PB  - Melanda Film Productions, Amanda Productions, Greek Film Center
N1  - Based on a play of the same name by Anton Chekhov
N2  - From case cover:
In pre-Revolutionary Russia, Madame Ranevskaya (Charlotte Rampling) returns to her decaying estate after an exile in Paris. Ranevskaya's dissolute brother Gaev (Alan Bates), her insecure adopted daughter Varya (the late Katrin Cartlidge in one of her final film roles) and dotty butler Feers (Michael Gough) are as ill-prepared for the grim financial realities that threaten their existence as Ravenskaya is. At stake are the estate and its beloved cherry orchard, the pride of this extended family of aristocrats and freed serfs. As spring gives way to summer and memory threatens reason, the family must either find their footing in a Russia turned upside down or flounder in a sea of longing and doubt, a bittersweet luxury that they can literally no longer afford.

From IMDb:
Madame Ranevskaya (Rampling) is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin (Teale), her former serf, who has his own agenda
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