Three Sisters

The sisters Mascha, Irina and Olga have been living in a Russian province city for over ten years. After the death of both parents, all three sisters long for their home town Moscow, away from the constricting province. Olga works a teacher, a job which costs all her energy and time. Mascha is married to a pendant teacher, whereas Irina suffers a lot from the monotony of her life. Her brother Andrej, a gambling addict, who unsuccessfully dreams of a career in science, has squandered the shared inheritance which was supposed to fund their move. Thus, they are trapped, lonely and without hope for change.
A few years later, Andrej has become a father and secretary in administration; his wife Natalja increasingly takes over the dominance at home. The love relationships of Mascha, Olga and Irina fail, again they stay behind lonely and disillusioned. Their longing for Moscow has never been bigger but it is also further away than ever before. In the end, the three sisters stay in the province, trapped in the never-changing monotony and loneliness of their everday life.

This drama by Tschechow is a story about the life of three sisters in the 1900s. They seem being trapped in a world without change, without passion and without meaning. Expectations are disappointed again and again, wishes and plans remain unfulfilled. Within all that, Tschechow presents his characters with admiration and love for the diversity of human emotions: “In a thousand years, man will still moan: O, it is so hard to live!”