The Lady with the Dog (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The lady with the puppy |
| Original title | Дама с собачкой (Dama s sobatschkoi) |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Iossif Efimovich Cheific |
| script | Iossif Efimovich Cheific |
| production | Lenfilm |
| music | Nadeshda Simonja |
| camera |
Dmitri Meszchijew Andrei Nikolajewitsch Moskvin |
| occupation | |
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The Lady with the Puppy Dog (original title: Дама с собачкой , Translit Dama s sobatschkoi ) is a black and white Soviet feature film by the director Iossif Eefimowitsch Cheific from 1960 with Ija Sergejewna Savvina and Alexei Vladimirovich Batalov in the leading roles. The director wrote the script himself. It is based on the novel of the same name by Anton Chekhov . The film was shown for the first time in his home country on January 28, 1960, in the Federal Republic of Germany around five years later.
action
The film is set in Russia at the end of the 19th century. They meet for the first time in the seaside resort of Yalta on the Crimean peninsula: Anna Sergejewna, the girlish young woman from the provinces, who can always be found alone on the beach promenade, accompanied only by a white Spitz, and the bank clerk Dmitrij Dmitrijewitsch Gurow Moscow. Both are married; both spend the summer weeks on the Black Sea without their unloved spouses. The passionate love affair between them, which quickly developed and which seems to come to an abrupt end with Anna's hurried departure, was initially only intended as a non-binding and temporary holiday adventure on the part of the man.
But when he returned to his family and professional life in Moscow, Gurov realized that he could not forget Anna. One winter's day he goes to the provincial town where she lives with her husband, a government official. He meets her again in the theater and can have a few words with her during the break. Anna never forgot him either; for her, Gurow is and remains her great, only love. From now on she leaves her husband from time to time on some pretext and goes to Moscow to meet Gurov in secret.
criticism
“Well worth seeing film adaptation of the Chekhov novella [...]. A love and adultery story of hopeless melancholy, in which the decadent bourgeois atmosphere of late Tsarist Russia is artistically present. "
“The story of the hopeless love of two people, filmed with great empathy based on a novella by Anton Chekhov [...]. A cinematic work of art of restrained beauty that impresses above all with its melancholy magic. Strongly recommended from 16 onwards. "
"Predicate" Valuable ""
"Chejfiz [...] escapes the noble simplicity of socialist realism: he senses the decadence of the Chekhov world and imitates the good old days even in the milky gray of the picture."
Web links
- The Lady with the Dog in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Text of the literary source for the Gutenberg project
- Film data on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 247/1965, pp. 453 to 454.
- ↑ a b Lexikon des Internationale Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 595.
- ↑ The Lady with the Dog (USSR) . Criticism in Der Spiegel, issue 34/1965 from August 18, 1965.