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The Seagull

Chayka (1972)

Drama | Soviet Union
Director: Yuli Karasik

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Rating: 7.2/10
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Based on chehov's homonymus play the seagull narrates the story of a disturbed family and their aquiantances during summer time in the countryside. Mixed feeling resurface in the authentic chehovian atmosphere.
This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

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