Lady with the Dog 1960

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

Aleksey Batalov

Nina Alisova

Pantelejmon Krymov

Yuri Medvedev

Pavel Pervushin

Lev Stepanov

Zinaida Dorogova

Vladimir Erenberg

Kirill Gun

Yakov Gudkin

Mikhail Ivanov

Georgiy Kurovskiy

Svetlana Mazovetskaya

Aleksandr Orlov

Dmitriy Zebrov