The Lady with the Dog (1960)

Original title

Дама с собачкой

Directed by

Iosif Kheifits, Semyon Derevyansky

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married man meets a woman with a small dog at a seaside resort. They begin a quiet affair that grows into something deeper, forcing them to confront their feelings and the constraints of their separate lives.

romanticmelancholicslow-burnintimatebittersweetcontemplativeelegantunderstated

What happens

The Lady with the Dog (Russian: Дама с собачкой, translit. Dama s sobachkoy) is a 1960 Soviet romantic drama film written and directed by Iosif Kheifits, based on the 1899 short story by Anton Chekhov. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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