An aging actress named Irina Arkidana pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.

Starring:

James Mason , Vanessa Redgrave , Simone Signoret , David Warner , Harry Andrews , Denholm Elliott , Eileen Herlie , Alfred Lynch , Ronald Radd , Kathleen Widdoes

Genre:

Drama, Romance