Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters" (1970), End Of Play

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Jeanne Watts ... Olga Joan Plowright ... Masha Louise Purnell ... Irina Alan Bates ... Col. Vershinin Sheila Reid ... Natasha Directed by Laurence Olivier and John Sichel Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth (who did "2001: A Space Odyssey) translated by Moura Budberg Anton Chekhov "Three Sisters" was written in 1900 "Beside the sea there stands a tree, and on that tree a golden chain....and on that chain an educated cat goes around and around and around...." ---the opening of Pushkin's " ...