The Seagull is a movie directed by Michael Mayer in 2018 and based on the play of the same name by Anton Chekhov, first published in 1895. The movie features Annette Bening, Saoirse Ronan, Corey Stoll, Elisabeth Moss, Mare Winningham, Brian Dennehy, and others.
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Storyline
Set in Russia in the early 1900s, an aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin at a country estate. On one occasion, she brings her lover Boris Trigorin, a successful novelist. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, who is in a relationship with Konstantin, falls in love with Boris.
Movie vs Book
Year
2018
Minutes
98
Movie Rate
5.80
Source: IMDb
Year
1895
Pages
65
Book Rate
7.86
S: Goodreads
Book
The Seagull
Author: Anton Chekhov
Country: Russia
First published in: 1895
Length: 65 pages
Genre: Play
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“I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.”
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