The Seagull (1970)
Original title: Чайка
The Seagull is a 1970 Russian-language drama movie directed by Yuli Karasik, with a running time of 1h 34m. It stars Alla Demidova, Vladimir Chetverikov and Nikolai Plotnikov.
Events unfold on the estate of Pyotr Sorin, which brought together representatives of secular society - actress Irina Arkadina, the host's sister and her lover, the famous writer Trigorin. Sorin’s nephew, Konstantin Treplev, in love with a neighbor girl Nina Zarechnaya, who dreams of becoming an actress, writes for her a play that she plays in the scenery of Sorin’s garden.
Cast
- Alla Demidova as Arkadina
- Vladimir Chetverikov as Treplev
- Nikolai Plotnikov as Sorin
- Ludmila Savelyeva as Zarechnaya
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Shamrayev
- Sofya Pavlova as Polina Andreyevna
- Valentina Telichkina as Masha
- Yuriy Yakovlev as Trigorin
- Efim Kopelyan as Dorn
- Sergei Torkachevsky as Medvedenko
- Stanislav Simonov as Yakov
- Henrikas Kurauskas as Knyazkov