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The Cherry Orchard

8.0 128 mins Drama   TV Movie   1962
BBC   Royal Shakespeare Company  
Director(s): Michael Elliott

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.

Casts of The Cherry Orchard

Peggy Ashcroft

as Madame Ranevsky

John Gielgud

as Gaev

George Murcell

as Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin

Judi Dench

as Anya

Dorothy Tutin

as Varya

Ian Holm

as Trofimov

Patsy Byrne

as Dunyasha

Patrick Wymark

as Semion Panteleyevich Epihodov

Paul Hardwick

as Simyon Pishchik

Patience Collier

as Charlotta Ivanovna

Roy Dotrice

as Firs

David Buck

as Yasha

Gordon Gostelow

as Passer-by

Russell Hunter

as Coachman

Peter Holmes

as Coachman

Julian Battersby

as Gardener

Bill Wallis

as Stationmaster

Narissa Knights

as Stationmaster's Wife

Mike Murray

as Government Official

Ronald Scott-Dodd

as Schoolmaster

Rosemary Mussell

as Schoolmaster's Wife

Gareth Morgan

as Post Office Clerk

Cherry Morris

as Peasant

Georgina Ward

as Peasant

Sebastian Breaks

as Peasant

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