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Title from disc surface.
Bonus features: Michael Pennington portraying Chekhov, radio plays (Wild honey, Ivanov, Swan song), five short stories read by Ewan McGregor, rehearsals and scenes from Chekhov plays with Oleg Efremov and various actors.
DVD, region 1, NTSC ; Dolby Digital mono and stereo, 4:3 aspect ratio, 4xDVD9 + 2XDVD18.
In English, with optional English SDH subtitles.
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Disc 1. Platonov (Originally broadcast May 23, 1971) / directed by Christopher Morahan ; adapted by John Elliot ; produced by Cedric Messina (Starring Rex Harrison, Sian Phillips, Clive Revill, Geoffrey Bayldon, Joanna Dunham). Radio play : Wild honey (1989) / translated and adapted by Michael Frayn ; produced by Peter King (Starring Ian McKellen) -- Disc 2. The wood demon (Originally broadcast November 17, 1974) / directed by Donald McWhinnie ; translated by Ronald Hingley ; produced by Cedric Messina (Starring Ian Holm, Francesca Annis, Ronald Fraser, Ronald Hines, Angela Pleasence, Vickery Turner). The proposal (Originally broadcast March 10, 1959) / produced by Rosemary Hill (Starring Harry Moore, Anne Robson, David Bird). The wedding (Originally broadcast October 17, 1961) / English version by Eric Bentley ; produced by Rosemary Hill (Starring Dennis Edwards, Robert Gillespie, Anne Robson). Radio plays. Ivanov (2001) / adapted by David Hare ; produced by Catherine Bailey (Starring Ralph Fiennes). Swan song (1965) / translated by Nicholas Bethell ; produced by John Tydeman (Starring Wilfrid Lawson) -- Disc 3. The seagull (Originally broadcast February 5, 1978) / directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg ; produced by David E. Jones (Starring Anthony Bate, Michael Gambon, Georgina Hale, Zoe Caldwell, Stephen Rea, Julia Schofield, Alan Webb). An artist's story (Originally broadast February 2, 1974) / directed by David Jones ; adapted by Jeremy Brooks ; produced by Gavin Miller (Starring Patrick Stewart, Meg Wynn Owen, Emma Williams, Phillip Locke, Brenda Bruce, Yona Gailit) -- Disc 4. Side A, Uncle Vanya (Originally broadcast November 8, 1970) / directed by Christopher Morahan ; produced by Cedric Messina (Starring Anthony Hopkins, Freddie Jones, Ann Bell, Roland Culver) . Side B, Uncle Vanya (Originally broadcast October 12, 1991) / directed by Gregory Mosher ; adapted by David Mamet ; produced by Simon Curtis (Starring Ian Holm, David Warner, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ian Bannen, Rebecca Pidgeon) -- Disc 5. The three sisters (Originally broadcast January 18, 1970) / directed by Cedric Messina ; adapted by Elisaveta Fen ; produced by Gerald Savory (Starring Anthony Hopkins, Janet Suzman, Eileen Atkins, Michele Dotrice, Joss Ackland, Christopher Timonty) -- Disc 6. Side A, The cherry orchard (Originally broadcast April 17, 1962) / RSC production directed by Michel Saint-Denis ; directed for television by Michael Elliott ; translated by John Gielgud (Starring Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud, Dorothy Tutin, Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Paul Hardwick). Side B, The cherry orchard (Originally broadcast October 13, 1981) / directed by Richard Eyre ; adapted by Trevor Griffiths from a translation by Helen Rapparport ; produced by Ann Scott (Starring Judi Dench, Bill Paterson, Anton Lesser, Harriet Walter, Suzanne Burden, Frederick Treves, Timothy Spall).
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