Title and credits from container. 1962 cast: Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Dorothy Tutin ; 1981 cast: Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Anton Lessor. Based on the play Vishnyovyy sad by Anton Chekhov. Includes special features.
Contents:
The cherry orchard (1962) / directed by Michel Saint-Denis ; directed for television by Michael Elliot ; adapted for television by Norman James -- The cherry orchard (1981) / produced by Ann Scott ; directed by Richard Eyre.
Summary:
Set in late nineteenth-century Russia, a Russian aristocrat returns home after a long absence and learns her family fortune has been squandered and she may have to sell her mansion and the beloved cherry orchard.
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