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?
Stars: Iya Savvina, Aleksey Batalov, Nina Alisova, Pantelejmon Krymov, Yuri Medvedev, Pavel Pervushin
Crew: Iosif Kheifits (Director), Anton Chekhov (Novel), Iosif Kheifits (Writer), Nadezhda Simonyan (Original Music Composer), Andrey Moskvin (Camera Operator), Berta Manevich (Art Direction)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Studio: Lenfilm
Runtime: 83 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 28, 1960
IMDb: 5.38
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