Lady with the Dog
movie

Released January 28, 1960
Overview
On holiday in Yalta, Muscovite banker Dimitri Gurov contrives to meet a young woman who walks her dog. She’s Anna Sergeyevna, trapped in a loveless marriage to a lackey. He’s unhappy in an arranged marriage. With neither spouse at hand, Dimitri and Anna begin an affair. After a short time, she returns to Saratov, he to Moscow, believing it’s good-by forever. All winter he is miserable, enervated, distracted by tristesse. In desperation, he contrives to go to Saratov, surprising her at a concert. Fearing discovery in her home town, she promises to come to Moscow. Will they cast aside reputation to live together, or will theirs be an affair of infrequent encounters in hotel rooms?
Cast

Iya Savvina
as
Анна Сергеевна

Aleksey Batalov
as
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Гуров

Nina Alisova
as
жена Гурова

Pantelejmon Krymov
as
Алексей Семенович Фролов (приятель Гурова по клубу)

Yuri Medvedev
as
чиновник (партнер по карточным играм Докторского клуба)

Pavel Pervushin
as
извозчик

Lev Stepanov
as
продавец собачки Фру-фру

Zinaida Dorogova
as
певица в ресторане

Vladimir Erenberg
as
приятель Гурова

Kirill Gun
as
чиновник

Yakov Gudkin
as
пассажир на пароходе (нет в титрах)

Mikhail Ivanov
as
портье
Crew

Iosif Kheifits
as
Director

Anton Chekhov
as
Novel

Iosif Kheifits
as
Writer

Dmitri Meskhiyev
as
Director of Photography

Nadezhda Simonyan
as
Original Music Composer
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Elena Bazhenova
as
Editor

Isaak Kaplan
as
Production Design

Andrey Moskvin
as
Director of Photography

Berta Manevich
as
Production Design
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Semyon Derevyansky
as
Assistant Director
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Arnold Shargorodsky
as
Sound Director
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Vasiliy Ulyanov
as
Makeup Artist