In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.In this filmed Chekhov adaptation, Olga is an alluring peasant woman who lures cynical aristocrat Fedor away from his milquetoast fiancée, with tragic consequences.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Laurie Lane
- Clara Heller
- (as Lori Lahner)
Don Brodie
- Bit Player
- (uncredited)
Woody Charles
- Young Lackey
- (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
- Man Mailing Letter
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe source story by Anton Chekhov, 'The Shooting Party', is set in the 1840's, but director Douglas Sirk moved up the setting to the 1910s so the framing sequences at the beginning and the end would take place after the Russian Revolution. "With guys like [Fedor] and the Count going around, there had to be a revolution," Sirk explained.
- GoofsIn the present day, Count Volsky tells Nadena Kalenin that he remembers how she was "just a little girl" seven years ago. However, the main events of the story take place seven years earlier, when Nadena was a fully grown woman.
- Quotes
Fedor Mikhailovich Petroff: You're so beautiful; why is it that you degrade everything you touch?
- ConnectionsFeatured in La noche de...: La sombra de la sospecha (2017)
- Soundtracks'Andante cantabile' from Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Featured review
Russian peasant vixen
Summer Storm is an adaption of Anton Chekhov's play The Shooting Party updated so as to include
the Russian Revolution and the upheavals in the social order it brought. But
certain things are both international and eternal. As this one where a beautiful
peasant girl uses her looks and charm to get ahead in a society that didn't have
any feminist notions.
Linda Darnell is our beautiful and alluring female protagonist. She's a peasant girl who is on the estate of Count Edward Everett Horton and before the film is over she gets the hormones going for Horton, for his estate manager Hugo Haas and for Judge George Sanders.
This was a bit of interesting casting for Sanders as he was in fact born in old Russia and according to his biographer and colleague Brian Aherne had a bit more of that temperament in his nature than you would realize. But for all of his position and sophistication he's addicted to love when it comes to Darnell.
This was also unusual casting for Edward Everett Horton who usually was playing silly fuss budgets in so many comedy films Some of that is here, but director Douglas Sirk got so much more from the character. As Sanders observes about the decadent Horton, he's everything that's wrong with the society that he is a part of.
Anna Lee is in Summer Storm also. She's the girl Sanders throws over for Darnell. But comes the Revolution and the worm really does turn.
It's not exactly what Chekhov had in mind, but Summer Storm is definitely worth a look for fans of the various cast members.
Linda Darnell is our beautiful and alluring female protagonist. She's a peasant girl who is on the estate of Count Edward Everett Horton and before the film is over she gets the hormones going for Horton, for his estate manager Hugo Haas and for Judge George Sanders.
This was a bit of interesting casting for Sanders as he was in fact born in old Russia and according to his biographer and colleague Brian Aherne had a bit more of that temperament in his nature than you would realize. But for all of his position and sophistication he's addicted to love when it comes to Darnell.
This was also unusual casting for Edward Everett Horton who usually was playing silly fuss budgets in so many comedy films Some of that is here, but director Douglas Sirk got so much more from the character. As Sanders observes about the decadent Horton, he's everything that's wrong with the society that he is a part of.
Anna Lee is in Summer Storm also. She's the girl Sanders throws over for Darnell. But comes the Revolution and the worm really does turn.
It's not exactly what Chekhov had in mind, but Summer Storm is definitely worth a look for fans of the various cast members.
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- Apr 25, 2018
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- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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