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 remain a playwright and lead to the overwhelming success of his next endeavor "Uncle Vanya", and indeed to the rest of his dramatic oeuvre. The play takes place on a country estate owned by Sorin, a retired senior civil servant in failing health. He is the brother of the famous actress Arkadina, who has just arrived at the estate for a brief vacation with her lover, the writer Trigorin. Sorin and his guests gather at an outdoor stage to see an unconventional play that Arkadina's son, Konstantin Treplyov, has written and directed. The play-within-a-play features Nina, a young woman who