Onegin

Classical adaptation of Pushkin’s novel with a strong cast and some striking cinematography. Ralph Fiennes is the diffident aristocrat who rejects Liv Tyler before deciding that she’s rather fine after all. Of course, by then, it’s too late. Fiennes’ sister Martha, better known for her advertising work, directs with restraint., Eugene Onegin is a cynical aristocrat who is one of St. Petersburg’s most eligible bachelors. While in the countryside, he meets the shy and beautiful Tatyana. Tatyana pens a letter professing her love to him, but he callously rejects her. Years later, he runs into Tatyana at a friend’s party. Seeing her in a different light, he falls passionately for her., A Russian aristocrat falls in love with the married woman whom he once spurned. Based on the Aleksandr Pushkin novel., An incredibly good-looking pairing as Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler star in the emotional period drama, set in Russia in the 1820s, and based on Pushkin’s verse novel. When a diffident aristocrat rejects the advances of a woman who has fallen in love with him, he antagonises his good friend who is engaged to the woman’s elder sister. Both men are too stubborn to back down, and their quarrel escalates with fatal results., An adaptation of Aleksandr Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” about an aristocrat who spurns a woman only to fall in love with her after she’s married., Martha Fiennes’ directorial debut, based on Pushkin’s poem, stars her brother Ralph as Evgeny Onegin, an aristocrat who inherits his uncle’s country estate. Spurning the attentions of Tatyana Larina, he pursues the married Olga Larina, leading to a fatal duel with her husband and Onegin’s exile. Returning after six years, he again meets Tatyana, but this time the tables are turned and he must pay for his heartless treatment of her. With signing for the deaf and hard of hearing., An adaptation of Aleksandr Pushkin’s “Eugene Onegin” about an aristocrat (Ralph Fiennes) who spurns a woman (Liv Tyler) only to fall in love with her after she’s married., 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, a older and more humble Onegin re-encounters the married Tatyana and begs her for a second chance.