The Seagull - 1975 - Anton Čechov - John J. Desmond - Blythe Danner - Frank Langella 

The young and beautiful Frank Langella has never been topped by any actor. God gave him a gift to be shared.

Definitely watching this instead of reading the play for summer reading

I feel like I am eating up my own life for the honey that I give away. You're the last chapter of my life , if you leave me , I'll be out of my mind. Cast and the acting make your eyes glued and heart enraptured till the end.

I love every actor in this production. Blythe and Frank. You could not find another them anywhere.

My first exposure to Chekov. Saw it when it originally aired in 1975 and loved it. Boy, have the actors in this cast aged like the rest of us! Watched it again this evening (THANKS FOR POSTING) and it still holds up quite well. Especially Blythe Danner, Lee Grant and Frank Langella. Some of the supporting performances not as much, but still very compelling and thought provoking. Enjoyed comparing it to the recent film with Annette Bening and Elizabeth Moss, which is also quite well done.

Rest in peace, Mr. Hal Holbrook. Thank you for the lovely intro. You will be missed dearly!

Thanks for this! Blythe Danner is the definitive Nina.

I've never seen a greatest Nina. Blythe Danner IS Nina. Gosh, she's incredible!

I am russian guy, was seraching for a perfetct represantation of the final scene between Nina and Treplev, watched MANY russian movies and they not even close to this one. SO true to life scene here

I don’t know the accuracy of this interpretation, but watching this after reading the play did help me to visualize and digest it

Thank you for uploading this. I remember watching it on PBS forty years ago (!), it was a great pleasure seeing it again.

2022 July 2, I am still reading Anton Chekov short stories... He read internal spirits of human from different social class and present in fewest words - a short story master...

Very helpful for an essay for class, thank you!

This is extremely beautiful. So nice to see these actors on the stage rather than in film.

Thanks so much for uploading this!

Frank Langella has so much charisma, even when he's playing this nervous anxious mess.

This is the best version on RU-vid. I still remember it.

Tqsmuch it's help lots for me to easily understand the play .

I remember this series King Lear James Earl Jones, beautiful young Blyth Danner in the Seagull, late 30s Irene Atkins in The Lady's Not for Burning. Entertaining serious theatre.

The Seagull showing in London Harold Pinter on June 2022

I love this TV play of the seagull it's the only thing I've seen it performed in

Excellent interpretation of Chekhov's play! Some scenes even better than what we seen in the best performances in Russian leading theaters and cinema-versions.

great film to watch & entertain ......

I just loved this play. Apparently checkov wrote to take the piss, as s joke, but I found it so real.

This was excellent! thanx a lot!

Unrequited love!

this was extraordinary

go Blythe Danner!

So it’s not Russian, it’s different and good for it’s manner . Thank you for sharing this here :)!

Definitive and indelible.

I found a copy recorded off of KCET, back when they had BBC-style clocks during intermissions and also The Dick Cavett Show on PBS.

lovely

Frank Langella throws away so many beautiful lines

I like this very much

Is The Seagull Chekhovs greatest play: GREAT performances by all but knew Nina looked familar found out her name from the end credits was shocked Blythe Danner such a magnicent STAGE actress??!!!

Gwyneth Paltrow looks like his mother Blythe Danner at the same age, same face, same expressions! (47")

Nina rises in the triangle of Chekhov's idea, real Russian life, & the concept of the director of this play.

Supposed to be doing a monologue from this and I understand nothing so I’m gonna try watching it. Kinda surprised I found it.

Good play, I saw it in a manga called Kasane

Beautiful play, perhaps the best play of Chekhov, I wonder if Seagull was written in form of a short story, it would have been a far better creation because I believe Chekhov was a far better short story writer than a playwright. I believe 1978 BBC Play of the month is a far better version/performance than this attempt.

Mrs. Blythe Danner I am in love with you.../

Can someone explain to me why Nina is asking Treplev at the end “why are you saying that you are kissing the ground that I walk on “?? Does she think that she doesn’t deserve this or what

I'm afraid the casting is wrong here. For example, Nina is supposed to be a 18-19 year old girl. Blythe Danner was 32 at the time and she just can't convince me. Masha is also a similar age as Nina, maybe a year or two older, but she's played by an older woman. I also never get to see the actors' faces clearly. They all move around too much.

Could anyone please give this text written in english ?

1:45:56 Nina's Monologue

Bookmarks 2:28 Start 14:18 35:15 Act 2

It looks like soap opera... I thought this was a classic.

Apologizes to Checkov, but all these people are nuts.

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Why does Dukakis have a Bronx accent?

Which script adaptation is this?

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Kevin McCarthy was 61 when he did this and he was suppose to be playing someone in their thirties ?

try to watch the "Ultimate" Seagull With Alla Demidova

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Does anyone know the actress at the time frame of 0:27 ?

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Treplev is not Hamlet, that’s the problem in this one version, he is not a hysterical sociopath too , for Russian this character is far away from this version at all:))))

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The Russian look and appearances being towed along by such American stylized voices, acting skills, and accents totally destroy the deeper spirit of this particular production. These actors should've just "Americanized" the play and made it contemporary to America and it would've made so much more sense for their acting skills and attitudes put forth in this production. This is a fine troupe of actors working with what they were given...the produces horribly failed in their effort to really display the great play.

Chekhov played like daytime tv soap opera. Chekhov calls this play a comedy. This is cream cheese when it should be roe.

Unfortunately the sphere is missing :/ And of cause it didn’t help it taking the play partly in natural environment, alas . The ability to tell yo text by heart, making face or grimacing is not enough to create the real atmosphere of any Chekhov’s play Only the actress who’s playing Arkadina is not so bad to me.

My neo-vagina smells like shit. I never should have let them use the colon and just the facia. I didn’t do it the natural way and now my boyfriend calls me “two shitters.” 😢

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just terrible to listen to chekovs words in that ghastly pronunciation of english.

I am sorry to have put dislike, but there is nothing saying Chekhov or Russia about this. Almost all actors are wrong for their roles, esp. the ones playing Constantin, Nina and Marsha's mom. Masha is supposed to be much younger than the actress who plays the role. Irina Arkadina here is too vulgar. The emotions are so wrong, again esp. those of Kostya and Nina. Really, the filmmakers should sometimes watch the old Soviet era movies based on Chekhov's plays to get the feeling of the era when Chekhov's was writing. Music is wrong - it sounds Central European, not Russian, besides that's not what aristocracy was playing in Chekhov's time.

The Russian soul is missing...

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Americans can't do this play.

Pompous second-rate writers and hysterical women -- what a bunch of jerks. I'm laughing all the way through this play.

you literally saved my finals thanks. wish me luck🤌🏻

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