Russian Film Series
In collaboration with Stage Russia HD, we will be screening the Russian theatre performance of Uncle Vanya. We will have one more screening this semester (The Brothers Karamazov) on December 3rd. English subtitles available.
UNCLE VANYA, Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow
Stage Russia HD (Vakhtangov Theatre): Rimas Tuminas' reimagining of Anton Chekhov's tale about broken illusions and dashed hopes is freed from its traditional trappings, leaving behind a battlefield for passions and colliding ambitions. This "Uncle Vanya" is about what Chekhov’s characters think and what they admit to only at moments of emotional turmoil. They are at times tongue-tied or overly brutal, but their revelations break out of them fervently, desperately just as a man breaks out of a stuffy room into the open air. A Golden Mask Winner for Best Drama, featuring the inimitable Sergey Makovetskiy as Voynitsky.
Captured on film before a live audience from Moscow's Vakhtangov Theatre.
180 minutes (with one 15 minute intermission included)
Russian with English subtitles