The Seagull (Russian: Чайка, romanized: Chayka) is a 1972 Soviet film adaptation of the 1896 play of the same name by Anton Chekhov.
Beside a lake on his land, Sorin helps his nephew Treplev set up the first production of his play.
The audience includes celebrities like Treplev's mother, the actress Arkadina, and her lover Boris Trigorin.
Feeling humiliated and overlooked, Treplev calls off the play and later drops a dead seagull at Nina's feet, announcing "I will kill myself in the same way".
Later Trigorin seduces Nina and confesses to her "A subject is coming to me full of life... that of a short story: a woman lives beside a lake from her childhood... like you.