August (1996 film)

August is a 1996 drama film directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins as Ieuan IPAjan Davies, and featuring Rhys Ifans in a small role in one of his earliest films, as Griffiths. It is an adaptation of Chekhovs Uncle Vanya, with Ieuan taking over the title role.

The film adapts Uncle Vanya to a turnofthecentury Welsh setting, emphasizing the hardships of Welsh industrial life in the slate quarries and WelshEnglish 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.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. ........

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