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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.

Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed
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	Timur Kogan
Distributed by	Lenfilm
Release date	1984
Running time	64 minutes
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

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

Crew

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

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)

На других языках

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- [en] Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed (film)

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[ru] Чужая жена и муж под кроватью (фильм)

«Чужа́я жена́ и муж под крова́тью» — советский полнометражный цветной телевизионный художественный фильм, поставленный на киностудии «Ленфильм» в 1984 году режиссёром Виталием Мельниковым по мотивам ранних рассказов Ф. М. Достоевского.

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