This was one of two British made adaptations of Anton Chekhov's 1900 play "Three Sisters" released in 1970. The other was The Three Sisters (1970).
Of the five film directed by Laurence Olivier (Dr. Ivan Chebutikin), this is the only one in which he did not play a member of a royal family. He played King Henry V of England in Henry V (1944), Prince Hamlet of Denmark in Hamlet (1948), King Richard III of England in Richard III (1955) and Prince Michael of Carpathia in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).
This is the only film directed by Laurence Olivier in which neither Russell Thorndike nor his sister Sybil Thorndike appeared. It is also the only film directed by Olivier in which Esmond Knight did not appear.
For decades, confusion existed as to the possible existence of a soundtrack album from this movie, as this movie was listed in the press rollout as one of seven titles in the American Film Theatre series that Caedmon Records would be releasing as box-set soundtrack albums. The Caedmon project got as far as The Iceman Cometh (1973), A Delicate Balance (1973), The Homecoming (1973), Rhinoceros (1974), Luther (1974) and Butley (1974). Three Sisters was never released, for two reasons: First, the AFT series began to falter, and record sales for the first six albums proved to be equally lukewarm, which led Caedmon to cancel its plans to produce any further box sets. Secondly, the sound recording of this movie, produced independently in 1970, and grandfathered into the AFT series, was substandard.
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