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Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed' 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
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.'Vitaly Melnikov (2011)'. [https://books.google.com/books?id=fgApSusyYyAC&pg=PA293 Life. Cinema]. Saint Petersburg: BXV-Peterburg, pp. 293294
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".[https://web.archive.org/web/20050503071649/http://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=12064&cid=1646 Yevgeni Popov: The twentieth-century literature came out of Dostoevsky] review at Russia-K, 2005 (archived, in Russian)
References
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