Lady with the Dog
1960 · 83 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 1,156 VOTES · DIR. Iosif Kheifits
Overview
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?
Dialogue Timeline — 473 lines
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00:00:00 LENFILM
00:02:54 Nothing special. Massandras. Scolopendras. It's maddening!
00:08:49 Do you like hearing the Moscow church bells ringing at Shrovetide?
00:10:17 - Though, no, not everything. - What else?
00:14:18 - I must go. - Go where?
00:19:46 Other people do live in the provinces.
00:21:37 What is it you want?
00:25:22 when we lose sight of the higher aims of existence.
00:28:06 Don't think ill of me. Don't think I'm a bad woman.
00:31:45 Goodbye. Don't think badly of me.
00:35:09 Satan reigning there supreme! He reigns supreme!
00:36:57 Lately I've read a very interesting brochure on that subject.
00:42:23 No, his name is Frou-Frou. Would you like to buy him?
00:44:03 Forjust one ruble an engineer will gobble up a jar of mustard
00:45:52 so there must be secrets, too.
00:48:34 that would have never happened to others.''
00:50:27 You see, Dmitry Dmitriyevich, love can be explained very simply.
00:52:23 Just as though you were in a lunatic asylum
00:55:23 I don't like partings.
01:07:41 Why, oh why did you come?
01:11:23 I had to hand it to his wife, it seemed to be a business letter.
01:13:39 There we are.
01:18:37 Why did it happen that I've met you now and not when I was young?
01:21:07 What are we to do?