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.
Review of The Lady with the Dog
