Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed (film)
Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed | |
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Чужая жена и муж под кроватью | |
Directed by | Vitaly Melnikov |
Screenplay by | Vladimir Valutskiy |
Based on | Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
Starring | Oleg Tabakov Oleg Yefremov Marina Neyolova Nikolai Burlyayev Stanislav Sadalsky Marina Shimanskaya |
Music by | |
Distributed by | Lenfilm |
Release date | 1984 |
Running time | 64 minutes |
Country | USSR |
Language | Russian |
Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed (Russian: Чужая жена и муж под кроватью, romanized: Chuzhaya zhena i muzh pod krovatyu) is a 1984 Soviet TV comedy film directed by Vitaly Melnikov. It is based on the 1848 story by Fyodor Dostoevsky of the same name.
Plot[]
The film is a vaudevillian story about a solid, venerable, jealous husband (Oleg Tabakov) searching for his frivolous wife (Marina Shimanskaya) winds up in someone else's apartment and finds himself under the bed of an unknown woman (Marina Neyolova) together with an unknown man (Stanislav Sadalsky) who is also there by accident.
Cast[]
- Oleg Tabakov - Ivan Andreyevich
- Oleg Yefremov - Alexander Dem'yanovich
- Marina Neyolova - Lisa
- Nikolai Burlyayev - Tvorogov
- Stanislav Sadalsky - Unknown man under the bed
- Marina Shimanskaya - Glafira Petrovna
- Yuri Bogatyryov - Bobynitsyn
- - an actor in the opera
- Yu Volyn - janitor
- Tatyana Zakharova - servant of Ivan Andreyevich and Glafira Petrovna
- Valentina Muradova - salon hostess
- Marina Razhdyestvenskaya - Yefrosinya, servant of Alexander and Lizanka Dem'yanovich
- Elena Rubin - opera actress
- Stanislav Sadalsky - an actor in the opera
- - Serge
- - companion of Serge
Crew[]
- Screenplay - Vladimir Valutskiy
- Director - Vitaly Melnikov
- Director of photography - Yuri Veksler
- Production design -
- Music -
- Sound engineer -
- Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad State Small Opera Theatre
Conductor - - Editors - ,
- Director group - Vladimir Korolev, Vladimir Sitnik, V. Belov, Buzyan T., M. Ivanov
- Operator - A. Nasyrov
- Installation -
- Makeup - O. Smirnova
- Costumes -
- Combined shooting:
operator - A. Torgovkin
Painter - - Decorators - T. Voronkov
- Assistant costume designer - Vladimir Volyn
- Operator group - Alexander Korneev, A. Jankowski
- Master prop - S. Gorodnichenko
- Master light - SE Stepanov
- Administrative unit - A. N., L. Petrov
- The film is based on the film Shostka production association "Svema."
Filming[]
According to Vitaly Melnikov, everyone had fun making the movie. The only difficulty was getting from under the antique bed which could've collapsed anytime, so Stanislav Sadalsky had to stay down there. He was then joined by Oleg Tabakov, and during pauses both of them simply fell asleep. Yuri Bogatyryov had only one free day, so he invented his costume and changed closes on the way from Moscow to Leningrad, thus upon arrival everyone witnessed a 19th-century nobleman casually walking out of a Soviet train.[1]
Critics[]
Writer Yevgeni Popov called the original story "an amusingly talented, funny, light, playful thing" written by a "then-lad Dostoevsky", and noted that a significant part of future absurdists such as Daniil Kharms or Nikolay Oleynikov owed him. Popov also recommended to watch the movie, highlighting the acting and Oleg Yefremov's work in particular. "Usually such a severe man flexing his jaw muscles, here he appears as an elderly relaxed gentleman".[2]
References[]
- ^ Vitaly Melnikov (2011). Life. Cinema. — Saint Petersburg: BXV-Peterburg, pp. 293—294 ISBN 978-5-9775-0669-4
- ^ Yevgeni Popov: The twentieth-century literature came out of Dostoevsky review at Russia-K, 2005 (archived, in Russian)
External links[]
- Another Man’s Wife and a Husband Under the Bed at IMDb
- Another Man’s Wife and a Husband Under the Bed at the National Film Register, Ministry of Culture of Russia
- Full movie at the official Lenfilm YouTube channel (with English subtitles)
- Another Man’s Wife and a Husband Under the Bed at the Cyril and Methodius Online Encyclopedia (in Russian)
- Another Man’s Wife and a Husband Under the Bed at Russia-K (in Russian)
- Russian-language films
- 1984 films
- Films based on short fiction
- Films based on works by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Russian comedy films
- Russian films
- Vaudeville
- 1984 comedy films
- 1980s Russian-language films