The Cherry Orchard
1981Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find 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.
Acted in
Judi Dench
as Mme. Ranevsky
Bill Paterson
as Lopakhin
Anton Lesser
as Trofimov
Harriet Walter
as Varya
Suzanne Burden
as Anya
Frederick Treves
as Gayev
Timothy Spall
as Epikhodov
Frances Low
as Dunyasha
David Rintoul
as Yasha
Anna Massey
as Charlotte
Paul Curran
as Firs
Wensley Pithey
as Pischik
Richard Vanstone
as Passer By
David Blake Kelly
as Station Master