Onegin
by Martha Fiennes
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Actor: Lena Headey, Liv Tyler, Martin Donovan, Ralph Fiennes, Toby StephensDirector: Martha Fiennes
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Ralph Fiennes
Cinematographer: Remi Adefarasin
Producer: Ileen Maisel
Producer: Simon Bosanquet
Writer: Alexander Pushkin
Writer: Michael Ignatieff
Writer: Peter Ettedgui
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-07-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate
Summary of Onegin
In the opulent st. Petersburg of the empire period eugene onegin is a jaded but dashing aritocrat 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. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/14/2004 Starring: Ralph Fiennes Liv Tyler Run time: 100 minutes Rating: R Director: Martha FiennesGiven that for Russians, Pushkin's poem Eugene Onegin is sort of like Hamlet, Beowulf, and Lord Byron's Don Juan rolled into one melancholy tale of lost love and ennui among the gentry, it's surprising Russian filmmakers have balked at adapting the film. Having taken a stage production of Hamlet to Russia where it was rapturously received, self-confessed Slavophile actor Ralph Fiennes must have thought he was making reparation when he executive-produced and starred in this faithful adaptation of the film. With Martha Fiennes on board as director, it's something of a family affair with more than a little of the solemnity one often discovers in "personal projects". Pushkin's romanticism comes across amply, but little of his ferocious wit or, inevitably, the authorial voice that makes the poem so compelling, even in translation. Ralph Fiennes typecasts himself in the title role: his Onegin is yet another of the actor's wintry, haunted lovers in period dress (this time early 19th century). The character, a jaded roué from St. Petersburg, summers in the countryside where he inadvertently wins the heart of the impulsive Tatyana (Liv Tyler, the girl they book when Gwyneth Paltrow's busy). Onegin's casual attitude to her love leads to a tragic duel (magnificently tense and perfectly staged), and years later a chance meeting stirs up feelings of regret, triumph, and moral queasiness. Tears well in eyes, letters are sent and read, furs are ruffled in the snow. This is the highbrow end of costume drama: patrician in its literary purity, and rather admirable in its restraint and good taste, if a little dull. --Leslie Felperin
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