The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard — Plot

Madame 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.

• Release date
• October 13, 1981
• Runtime
• 130 min
• Genres
• Drama, TV Movie
• Director
• Richard Eyre

The Cherry Orchard — Cast

Judi Dench Mme. Ranevsky Bill Paterson Lopakhin Anton Lesser Trofimov Harriet Walter Varya

S

Suzanne Burden Anya Frederick Treves Gayev Timothy Spall Epikhodov

F

Frances Low Dunyasha