Oleg Yefremov role), "Duck hunting" (Zilov's role), "Party Committee Meeting" (Potapov's role), "Boris Godunov" (the title role). He staged Anton Chekhov's plays: "Ivanov" (1976), "The Seagull" (1980), "Uncle Vanya" (1985), "The Cherry Orchard" (1989), "The Three Sisters" (1997). His last, unfinished, directorial work was "Cyrano de Bergerac". Oleg Yefremov played about 70 roles in feature and television films, the most famous of which are: "The First Echelon" by Mikhail Kalatozov, "The Soldiers were Advancing" by Leonid Trauberg, "The Alive and the Dead" by Alexander Stolper, "Someone Is Ringing, Open the Door" by Alexander Mitta, "Beware of the Car" by Eldar Ryazanov, "Three
The Seagull "Hamlet"). There are many allusions to Shakespearean plot details as well. For instance, Treplyov seeks to win his mother back from the usurping older man Trigorin much as Hamlet tries to win Queen Gertrude back from his uncle Claudius. "The Seagull" was first translated into English for a performance at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, in November 1909. Since that time, there have been numerous translations of the text—from 1998 to 2004 alone there were 25 published versions. In the introduction of his own version, Tom Stoppard wrote: "You can't have too many English Seagulls: at the intersection of all of