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1970 · 165 mins · English
Starring
Alan Bates, Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier, Derek Jacobi, Ronald Pickup, Robert Walker

Separated from their beloved Moscow by almost a thousand miles, the three sisters live in exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, strives to keep their family home—the sole legacy of their late father—while each sister wrestles with her own obsession and the many faces of love that bind them.

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