Onegin ( 1999 ) ( Eugene Onegin )

Onegin ( 1999 ) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Eugene Onegin
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
102 min + 40 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1999 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Martha Fiennes

Written By:
Peter Ettedgui
Alexander Pushkin

Actors:
Ralph Fiennes ..... Onegin
Liv Tyler ..... Tatyana
Toby Stephens ..... Lensky
Lena Headey ..... Olga
Martin Donovan ..... Prince Nikitin
Alun Armstrong ..... Zaretsky
Simon McBurney ..... Triquet
Harriet Walter ..... Madame Larina
Jason Watkins ..... Guillot
Irene Worth ..... Princess Alina
Gwenllian Davies ..... Anisia
Margery Withers ..... Nanya
Geoffrey McGivern ..... Andrey Petrovitch
Tim McMullan ..... Dandy 1
Tim Potter ..... Dandy 2

Synopsis:

Brother and sister team Martha and Ralph Fiennes collaborate together on this opulent Russian epic. Eugene Onegin (Ralph Fiennes) is a restless but dashing Russian aristocrat whose boredom with life often results in self-indulgent and shallow actions. He meets, and bewitches Tatiana (Liv Tyler) who not only falls in love with him, but professes this, an act not acceptable for women in those times. Initially he refuses of her, but this is act that sets forth a series of events that over many years culminate in tragedy and thwarted love....

Another member of the Fiennes family leaves a mark in the film business, as Martha Fiennes makes her big-screen directorial debut with a screen adaptation of the verse novel by Aleksander Pushkin, with her big brother Ralph Fiennes in the leading role. Onegin (Fiennes) is a blase man who has grown weary of the social whirl of his life in St. Petersburg in the 1820s. Onegin's wealthy uncle has recently passed on, bequeathing him a large estate in the country, where the financially embarrassed Onegin has now chosen to live. Onegin makes fast friends with his neighbor Lensky (Toby Stephens), who introduces Onegin to his fiancée Olga (Lena Headley). Olga in turn introduces him to her mother (Harriet Walker) and her younger sister, Tatyana (Liv Tyler). Onegin finds Tatyana interesting, and she is strongly infatuated with him, finding him coolly attractive and enjoying his straightforward way of expressing himself. Tatyana makes her feelings known to Onegin in a love letter, but he calmly rejects her advances. Lensky senses Tatyana's attraction to Onegin and talks to him about her; Lensky is shocked when Onegin says he regards her as unintelligent, and in a moment of anger Lensky challenges his friend to a duel. Neither man wants to kill the other, but both are too stubborn to back down, and Onegin ends up shooting Lensky, forcing him to flee to parts unknown. Six years later, an older and more humble Onegin re-encounters the married Tatyana and begs her for a second chance.

In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him.

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