This Movie was by far the greatest Russian Movie I have ever seen. I have been awake for over 72 hours rewatching the movie over and over in the hopes of finding all the greater meanings. My wife has been watching this movie with me as well and this has really spiced up our relationship. If you are also a true fan i would highly recommend watching this movie in reverse because it causes your view to change about all the characters in the movie. If you are looking for a movie that will make you laugh, Cry, and scream this is the movie for you.(P.s. the Grey Fence in the movie is very cheaply made you can see the metal support beams sticking from the sides)

It is generally believed that unrequited love is classified as impossible love. This is not entirely true as impossible love is more related to a kind of love wherein lovers try to possess something that is impracticable. This is why most instances of impossible love are similar to most incidents of unattainable love."The lady with the dog"- one of the most tender classics of Russian cinema is a film which deals with the theme of impossible love. This Iosif Heifits film describes the tragic tale of Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna who met and fell in love with each other while vacationing at Yalta, Russia. It is based on a famous short story by Anton Chekov which also takes into account the realization of the worthlessness of one's existence in an extremely dull milieu. Gurov is an integral part of this milieu which he hates with all his might. The film remains faithful to the spirit of the book as it has added rich, visual touches to the narrative which takes into account a highly puritanical Russian society where divorce had not yet made its appearance. The beauty of this film lies in the fact that both writer Anton Chekov and director Iosif Heifits emerge as true chroniclers of male-female relationships as they emphatically convey that whenever a man makes the first amorous move, a woman accepts it only when she is truly interested in getting herself involved in a love affair. Lastly, we all know that love is not a child's play and can bring trouble as the viewers watch with astonishment how Anna Sergeyevna express incessantly all unease which she feels whenever she is made conscious of her love affair.

THE LADY … is an exquisite and flawless piece of superior art; ah, you admirer of cinema, if you fall in love with such movies do not expect, pray you, to find many others alike. It's a movie of flawless taste—not even one single false note! On the contrary, the most delicious and nuanced and fluent harmony …. Oh, such movies disgust you of anything else—now, think only if it's wise and truly advisable ….It's also the simplest of movies, about love and life; a white flame. Only the simplest and very best things—nothing peculiar, strident or whimsical.This is the lightest art; the difficulty of its achievement is proved by the rarity of such masterpieces. Heifitz did not win a truly outstanding celebrity; yet, he should have had.

Watching "Dama s sobachkoy" (called "Lady with a Dog" in English), you almost wonder if it's going to turn into "Fatal Attraction". I mean, a story about a man and woman having a brief fling, and then he follows her home. What would anyone in the 21st century expect? Just because it's based on an Anton Chekhov novel, doesn't mean we can't make fun of it (especially given its overstuffed sense of itself). The truth is, if Dr. Forrester had made Mike, Servo and Crow watch this, they could have come up with some great comments; they could have even preceded it with an "educational" (read: propaganda) film for Soviet children. But so many movies from the Soviet Union are "Mystery Science Theater 3000"-worthy; "Father Frost" for example. On other notes, the movie has everything that we expect in Russian stories, namely misery and fatalism.