Swan Song (1992 film)

Swan Song is a 1992 short film directed by Kenneth Branagh and adapted for the screen by Hugh Cruttwell from the one act play of the same name by Anton Chekhov. It stars John Gielgud as the aging actor Svetlovidov and Richard Briers as the prop-master Nikita.[1]

Awards

Swan Song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, but lost to the comedy Omnibus.[1]

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Films directed by Kenneth Branagh
Awards and nominations Filmography Bibliography
Feature films	Henry V (1989, also wrote) Dead Again (1991) Peter's Friends (1992) Much Ado About Nothing (1993, also wrote) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) In the Bleak Midwinter (1995, also wrote) Hamlet (1996, also wrote) Love's Labour's Lost (2000, also wrote) As You Like It (2006, also wrote) The Magic Flute (2006, also wrote) Sleuth (2007) Thor (2011) Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) Cinderella (2015) Murder on the Orient Express (2017) All Is True (2018) Artemis Fowl (2020) Death on the Nile (2020)
Short films	Swan Song (1992) Listening (2003, also wrote)
Television films	Twelfth Night (1988)
Related	Renaissance Theatre Company Emma Thompson (ex-wife)
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