Onegin DVD 1999 Anyegin / Directed by Martha Fiennes / Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler / Timeless Classic about the power of love / Based on A. Pushkin's novel

UPC 5998133187734

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: Hungarian 2.0, English 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 102 minutes 

English Summary:

Onegin is a 1999 British-American romantic drama film based on Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin, co-produced by British and American companies and shot mostly in the United Kingdom. Onegin is Martha Fiennes' directorial debut and stars her brother Ralph Fiennes in the role of Yevgeny (Eugene) Onegin, Liv Tyler as Tatiana, Irene Worth as Princess Alina and Toby Stephens as Lensky. Two other Fiennes siblings were involved in the project: Magnus Fiennes wrote the music and Sophie Fiennes appeared in a minor role.

In early 19th century Russia, a bored St. Petersburg socialite named Onegin inherits his uncle's estate in the country. There, he meets a neighbouring landowner and aspiring poet, Lensky, and a widowed mother and her two daughters. The poet is engaged to the elder daughter Olga. Her sister, Tatiana, writes Onegin a passionate love letter but is cruelly spurned by him apparently due to her lack of social experience. His flirtatious attentions towards Lensky's fiancée leads to a duel. The duel is arranged to take place in a secluded place by a local lake, and unknown to the participants, Tatiana secretly witnesses the duel from a safe distance. She sees the outcome of Lensky taking the first shot and missing his opponent, followed by Onegin taking careful aim and disposing of Lensky with a shot to his opponent's head killing him instantly.

Onegin soon after departs from his country estate. On his return, six years later to St Petersburg, he encounters Tatiana, the woman whom he spurned, who is now a woman of refinement and married to a prince. Onegin begs her forgiveness for his past behaviour and becomes solicitous of her favors. After explaining to him that too much time has now passed, she now refused him and he is in turn now spurned by her.

Hungarian Summary:

Jevgenyij Anyegint sokan kedvelik az előkelő szentpétervári társaságban, hiszen művelt és gáláns fiatal úr, ámbár életuntsága és céltalansága talán éppen ennyire jellemző rá. Nem is szólva a szív dolgaival kapcsolatos cinikus látásmódjáról. Épp amikor elfogy a pénze, birtokot örököl gazdag nagybátyjától, és odaköltözik. Itt azonban, ha lehet, még jobban gyötri az unalom, és sem a vidékkel, sem lakóival nem tud igazán megbarátkozni. Egyetlen kivétel akad: fiatal szomszédja, Vlagyimir Lenszkij személyében igazi jóbarátra lel vidéki elvonultságában.
Lenszkij bemutatja őt menyasszonya, Olga családjának, s e látogatás során ismeri meg a lány nővérét, Tatjanát, aki annyira más, mint bárki a környezetében. A lányra óriási hatást gyakorol a különc szomszéd, és szenvedélyes szerelmes levélben vallja meg neki érzelmeit. Nem sokkal később azonban Anyegin hűvös udvariassággal utasítja vissza szerelmét, majd látványosan flörtölni kezd Olgával. Lenszkij rosszallására még nagyobb udvariatlansággal válaszol, mire a sértett vőlegény párbajra hívja. A két barát másnap hajnalban néz farkasszemet egymással; Lenszkij célt téveszt, ám Anyegin lövése végzetes. Megrendülten öleli át halott barátját, de már késő.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin [O.S. 26 May] 1799 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature.

Pushkin was born into Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to Pushkin noble families. A maternal great-grandfather was African-born general Abram Petrovich Gannibal. He published his first poem at the age of 15, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin recited his controversial poem "Ode to Liberty", one of several that led to his being exiled by Tsar Alexander the First. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov. His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin, was serialized between 1825 and 1832.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Ralph Fiennes as Yevgeny Onegin
• Liv Tyler as Tatyana Larina
• Toby Stephens as Vladimir Lensky
• Lena Headey as Olga Larina
• Martin Donovan as Prince Nikitin
• Alun Armstrong as Zaretsky
• Harriet Walter as Madame Larina
• Irene Worth as Princess Alina
• Jason Watkins as Guillot
• Simon McBurney as Triquet
• Gwenllian Davies as Anisia
• Margery Withers as Nanya
• Geoff McGivern as Andrey Petrovitch