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Onegin (1999)

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Release Date: December 17, 1999 (LA/NY)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Running Time: 106 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for brief violence and a sexual image.
Director: Martha Fiennes
Writer: Michael Ignatieff, Peter Ettedgui
Cast: Tim McMullan, Margery Withers, Gwenllian Davies, Geoffrey McGivern, Simon McBurney, Francesca Annis, Jason Watkins, Irene Worth, Harriet Walter, Alun Armstrong, Martin Donovan, Lena Headey, Toby Stephens, Liv Tyler, Ralph Fiennes

Eugene Onegin is an aristocrat from St. Petersburg who falls upon a quaint country town after inheriting his uncle's estate. There, through a new friend, he meets Tatyana, a vivacious young woman. Soon, she has fallen hopelessly in love with him, but he not with her. Her heart shattered, she watches as he moves in on her sister, but the real jealousy sits within Onegin's friend, Vladimir Lensky, who, in a fit of passionate jealousy, Read more

Movie Review

Grade: C+ Academy Award winner Ralph Fiennes and rising star Liv Tyler star in the remake Onegin, a movie that has good acting and beautiful direction but no substance. Read the full movie review

User Comments & Reviews

onegin, by Leya

May 15, 2004

I was just wondreing,at the beginning of the movie when he sits up ouy of bed,there is a beauitful painting.I was drawn to it.Taken in by it.Who was the painter?Is there any way I could veiw it?Or even buy it somwhere?Money is of no option.Pllease email me back.Leya@comcast.net.Your respond would be greatly appricated.Thank you.

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