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Futility by WILLIAM GERHARDIE adapted by OLIVIA MANNING with Geoffrey Beevers as Andrei Andreiech William Eedle as Nikolai Vasilievich
Diana Olsson as Fanny Ivanovna William Gerhardie (an English-man born in St Petersburg) wrote this distinguished novel, his first, in 1922. It is a classic study of unrequited love, part set against the backcloth of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Producer RICHARD WORTLEY

Contributors

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William Gerhardie
Adapted By:
Olivia Manning
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Geoffrey Beevers
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Andrei Andreiech
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William Eedle
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Nikolai Vasilievich
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Diana Olsson
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Fanny Ivanovna
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William Gerhardie
Producer:
Richard Wortley
Source: Radio Times

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