Uncle Vanya is a 1963 British film adaptation of the work Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. The film was directed by Stuart Burge. It was a filmed version of the Chichester Festival production, directed by (and starring) Laurence Olivier as Astrov, and also starring Michael Redgrave (Vanya), Rosemary Harris (Elena), and Joan Plowright (Sonya).
Cast (alphabetical)
Max Adrian
Lewis Casson
Fay Compton
Rosemary Harris
Robert Lang
Laurence Olivier
Joan Plowright
Michael Redgrave
Sybil Thorndike
Harold Hobson of the Sunday Times described the production as "the admitted master achievement in British twentieth-century theatre" while The New Yorker called it "probably the best 'Vanya' in English we shall ever see".
Later films of noted stage productions by Olivier included Othello (1965) and The Dance of Death (1969).
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