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The Cherry Orchard (1999)
We follow the delusional Ranevskaya family as they are about to lose their land.
If at first you are put off by the acting and you feel like the acting is over exaggerated, you must know that this film was meant to be a play. The director chose to make this story a play and just film it as a play not a traditional movie. If you ignore the acting you can see the important content of the time. The film takes place at around the time the serfs are emancipated. So at this time the serfs are allowed to leave their masters and do as they wished. This impacted everyone, but especially the nobles. In this film we can see the nobles start to die down without the serfs. Many of the nobles get deep into debt which is what happened to the Ranevskaya family and without the serfs they were not able to make money to pay it off. The style to this film is not that appealing but the story gives us insight into the events that took place at the time.
Zhestokiy romans (1984)
The story follows Larissa in a love triangle within the raznochintsy society.
Overall, it was a good romantic movie. The reflections shots that were captured must have been very difficult to capture, but it really added to the camera work. Yes, this movie is mostly about a love triangle, but it gave insight to how life really was in Russian at this time. Women were often treated as property and this movie definitely demonstrates this with Larissa getting tossed back and forth between possible suitors. This movie also touched on the topic of people marrying for wealth not necessarily love. In the movie this happened with Larissa's sisters and including herself Overall, it demonstrated how life was like in the raznochintsy social class of Russia