| Brief Description: | One of the most powerful stories by Anton Chekhov receives a masterful
film adaptation in the hands of Lucian Pintilie, one of the world's
foremost directors for the stage as well as screen. The story, set at
the turn of the century in a provincial Russian town, concerns a
doctor who oversees a grotesque mental ward. The only person he meets
with any comprehension of life is one of the inmates. The doctor is
reported to the authorities by one of the inmates, is judged mad, and
the story's two most humane and intelligent men are locked together in
Ward No. 6. A subtle, powerful film based on one of the great literary
works of Russian literature. Serbian with English subtitles. |
