
Lady with the Dog
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?
Top Billed Cast

Iya Savvina
Анна Сергеевна

Aleksey Batalov
Дмитрий Дмитриевич Гуров

Nina Alisova
жена Гурова

Pantelejmon Krymov
Алексей Семенович Фролов (приятель Гурова по клубу)

Yuri Medvedev
чиновник (партнер по карточным играм Докторского клуба)
Featured Crew

Iosif Kheifits
Director

Anton Chekhov
Novel

Iosif Kheifits
Writer
Dmitri Meskhiyev
Director of Photography

Nadezhda Simonyan
Original Music Composer

Andrey Moskvin
Camera Operator
Yelena Bazhenova
Editor

Berta Manevich
Art Direction
Isaak Kaplan
Production Design