It seems to me that we must have faith, or must search for it, or life will be empty. To live and not know why the cranes fly, why babies are born, why there are stars in the sky. Either you must know why you live, or it's all nonsense. Dust in the wind!

A year after the death of their father, an army officer, three Moscow-bred sisters Olga, Masha and Irina, are finding life drab and increasingly hopeless in a backwater provincial town. Only the proximity of a nearby army base and the company of its officers make their existence bearable. This classic story of what they make of their circumstances is a powerful and moving study of ordinary lives.

Cast

Andrey Prosorov

Owen York

Natasha, his fiancée, later his wife

Ciara Kelly

Olga

Johannah Cook

Masha

Emma Wass

Irina

Emma Fisher

Kuligin, Grammar School teacher, married to Masha

Neil Sullivan

Vershinin, lieutenant colonel in charge of a battery

John Ansari

Tuzenbach, baron, captain in the army

Craig Walton

Solyeni, lieutenant

Jaimie Watts

Chebutykin, army doctor

Ken Rowe

Fedotik, sub-lieutenant

Marshall Smith

Ferapont, clerk at local council offices

Alex Moore

Firs, an aged manservant

Alan Wade

Ensemble

Brenae Maxwell, Nigel Harper, Daniel Wild

Music

Violin

Ingrid Clement

Piano

Frances Clement

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