August (1996 film)


August is a 1996 British drama film directed by and starring Anthony Hopkins as Ieuan 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. It would be over a decade before his next directorial effort would, Slipstream in 2007, which he also wrote and for which he also composed the score.

Cast

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.

Language

It is primarily in English, with a few lines in Welsh here or there - such as diolch yn fawr iawn, cariad, and iechyd da.