A Hunting Drama

The film is based on the story by Russian writer Anton Chekhov.
Sergei Kamyshev, a successful investigator, on a visit to his friend, Count Korneyev, met 16-year-old Olenka. All the neighborhood men are mad about her. Quite unexpectedly, they learn that the girl is going to marry an old estate manager, Urbenin. But on her wedding day she confesses to Kamyshev that she loves him alone…Their love affair will be interrupted by a sudden shot made at the hunting…

Director: Emil Lotyanu
Script: Emil Lotyanu
camera; Anatoly Petritsky
music: Yevgheny Doga
Rusland, 1978, Mosfilm

Cast: Galina Belyayeva, Oleg Yankovsky, Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Markov, Svetlana Toma, Grigore Grigoriu, Vassily Simchich

extra's: video featurettes: “Provincial doctor”, “Reminiscences of the writer’s wife, actress O. Knipper-Chekhova”, “Reminiscences of writer N. Teleshov” / Interview with actress Svetlana Toma and composer Yevgeny Doga / A.P. Chekhov’s biography / filmographies / Photo Album

DVD9 / R2 / 4:3 / color
running time: 109 min.
sound: Dolby 5.1
spoken language: (original) Russian, (optional) English, French
subtitles: Dutch, Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese