August (1996 film)

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August
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Anthony Hopkins
Screenplay by	Julian Mitchell
Based on	Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
Produced by	June Wyndham-Davies Pippa Cross
Starring	Anthony Hopkins Leslie Phillips Kate Burton Gawn Grainger
Cinematography	Robin Vidgeon
Edited by	Edward Mansell
Music by	Anthony Hopkins George Fenton (conductor)
Production companies	Majestic Films International Newcomm Granada Film Productions
Distributed by	FilmFour Distributors (United Kingdom)[1] The Samuel Goldwyn Company (United States)
Release dates	16 February 1996 (1996-02-16) (Norway) 19 April 1996 (1996-04-19) (United States) 24 April 1996 (1996-04-24) ()
Running time	94 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom United States
Language	English

August is a 1996 British drama film directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins as Ieuan (IPA:j/əɨ/a/n) Davies, and featuring Rhys Ifans in a small role in one of his earliest films, as Griffiths. It is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1899 play Uncle Vanya, with the character Ieuan Davies taking over the title role.

The film was Hopkins's first feature film with a full cast (he had previously directed the one-man-performance of Dylan Thomas: Return Journey in 1990). It would be over a decade before his next directorial effort, Slipstream in 2007, which he also wrote and for which he also composed the score.

Cast[]

• Anthony Hopkins as Ieuan Davies
• Leslie Phillips as Prof. Alexander Blathwaite
• Kate Burton as Helen Blathwaite
• Gawn Grainger as Dr. Michael Lloyd
• as Sian Blathwaite
• Menna Trussler as Gwen
• Rhoda Lewis as Mair Davies
• Hugh Lloyd as Thomas Prosser
• Huw Garmon as Dafydd Edwards
• Rhys Ifans as Griffiths
• Susan Ellen Flynn as Rhianon
• Buddug Morgan as Nesta

Adaptation and issues[]

The film adapts Uncle Vanya to a turn-of-the-century Welsh setting, emphasizing the hardships of Welsh industrial life in the slate quarries and Welsh-English turmoil as an English professor upsets normal Welsh life when he arrives at the Welsh estate which acts as his vacation home (at one point Ieuan states that he feels that he has been cheated by the Prof. Blathwaite, just as "the English have always cheated the Welsh").

Language[]

It is primarily in English, with a few lines in Welsh here or there - such as diolch yn fawr iawn ("thank you very much"), cariad (a term of endearment, meaning "love"), and iechyd da ("cheers").

See also[]

• Meibion Glyndŵr, on Welsh-English relations surrounding the English taking vacation homes in Wales.
• List of Welsh films

References[]

External links[]

• August at IMDb
• August at Rotten Tomatoes

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