Uncle Vanya
1970 · 104 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 882 VOTES · DIR. Andrei Konchalovsky
Overview
Serebryakov, a retired professor and his beautiful, much younger second wife, Yeléna, visit their country estate, which funds their urban lifestyle. Vanya, brother of the Professor's first wife, who manages the farm estate, and the local Doctor Astrov, both fall under Yelena's spell, while complaining of the endless ennui of their provincial existence. Astrov is an experienced physician who performs his job conscientiously, but has lost all idealism and spends much of his time drinking. Sofya, the Professor's daughter by his first wife, who works to keep the estate going with her uncle Vanya, meanwhile suffers from lack of esteem over what she sees as her own lack of beauty, and from an unrequited love for Dr. Astrov. Matters are brought to a head when the Professor announces his intention to sell the estate, Vanya and Sofya's home, to achieve a higher income for himself and his wife.
Dialogue Timeline — 664 lines
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00:04:22 - Will you have a little vodka? - No, I don't drink vodka every day.
00:07:59 Please be good enough to send my tea into the library.
00:10:19 but is it moral for her to strangle her poor youth in her breast and banish
00:13:04 You speak as if your former convictions were somehow to blame
00:16:44 graceful in speech and gesture.
00:21:05 They say that Turgenieff got angina of the heart from gout.
00:25:31 - Of course
00:28:51 Perhaps. Perhaps.
00:34:32 But when the sun behind the hill set
00:40:18 However, I may be judging her too severely.
00:43:26 because I am afraid your uncle might detain me.
00:48:27 Probably a matter of business.
00:51:09 He is a strange man. Listen, Sonia, will you allow me to speak to him?
00:54:30 Frankly, my thoughts were elsewhere.
00:57:26 - I swear to you.... - What's that good for. You don't have to swear!
01:04:44 My life is nearly over, and I am not thinking of myself
01:06:53 and left a debt of twenty-five. Now listen!
01:09:23 My best years have gone for nothing, have been ruined, thanks to you.
01:12:16 Hold him! He has gone mad!
01:15:50 but we - you and I ...
01:19:47 Are you here, Ivan Petrovici? We are starting in a moment.
01:25:19 a whole treatise on the conduct of life.
01:29:59 I hate to go.
01:36:27 What can we do? We must live our lives.