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In the early years of the century, Russians of every social class were beginning to see the onset of a great upheaval. Gorky's mighty naturalistic masterpiece shows us a diverse group of Russians meeting each year, at their summer holiday retreat. Some are frightened at the prospect of change, some are angry and some yearn for a new life. As they question the value of their work, their art and leisure, they're shocked by the response their disputes reveal. Relationships break under the strain and scandals of business and infidelity are laid bare. A group of bourgeois Russians are spending the summer in the country. There is much idleness and languor, a great deal of drinking; love affairs and arguments break out and at the end the characters disperse!

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Author: Maxim Gorky
Director: Helena Kant-Howson