Uncle Vanya

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Uncle Vanya

1957

1h 38m

7.0(2 votes)

Drama

Overview

A country doctor (Franchot Tone) loves but cannot have a professor's wife (Clarence Derwent) in Chekhov's play set in czarist Russia.

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Cast & Crew

9 members

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Franchot Tone

Dr. Mikhail Lvovich Astroff

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Clarence Derwent

Serebriakoff

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Dolores Dorn

Elena Andreevna

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Shirley Gale

Voinitskaya

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Gerald Hiken

Telegin

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Peggy McCay

Sofia

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Mary Perry

Marina

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Sanford Seeger

A Workman

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Jiří Voskovec

Voinitsky (Uncle Vanya)

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