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?

Genres

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)

Pavel Pervushin

извозчик

Lev Stepanov

продавец собачки Фру-фру

Zinaida Dorogova

певица в ресторане

Vladimir Erenberg

приятель Гурова

Kirill Gun

чиновник

Yakov Gudkin

пассажир на пароходе (нет в титрах)

Mikhail Ivanov

портье