The Dog in the Manger (1978 film)

1978 film by Yan Frid

The Dog in the Manger

Written by	Yan Frid
Directed by	Yan Frid
Starring	Margarita Terekhova Mikhail Boyarsky Igor Dmitriev
Music by	Gennady Gladkov
Country of origin	Soviet Union
Original language	Russian
Production
Cinematography	Evgeniy Shapiro
Running time	129 minutes
Production company	Lenfilm
Original release
Release	1978 (1978)

The Dog in the Manger (Russian: Собака на сене, romanized: Sobaka na sene) is a 1978 Soviet musical-comedy film directed by Yan Frid based on the eponymous 1618 play by Lope de Vega.

Plot

Teodoro, secretary of the Countess Diana de Belflère, is in love with the maid Marcella. The lady suddenly feels jealousy awakening in her as she watches their romance develop. But conventions and burden of prejudice have strong power over the independent and self-willed Diana. She, who teases her noble fiancées, can not go so low as to confess her love to an uncultivated servant. Teodoro has no choice - he has to leave Diana's house and go to seek happiness in some other place although the souls of lovers belong to each other. Then his servant Tristan, a wily and witty scoundrel comes to the rescue. And Teodoro suddenly turns out to be an aristocratic nobleman, in no way inferior in his ancestry and wealth to Diana.

Cast

Margarita Terekhova - Diana, Countess de Belfleur (vocals: Elena Driatskaya)
Mikhail Boyarsky - Teodoro
Igor Dmitriev - Count Federico (vocals: Mikhail Boyarsky )
Nikolai Karachentsov - Marquis of Ricardo, Diana's suitor
Ernst Romanov - Count Ludovico, father of Teodoro
Elena Proklova - Marcela, Diane's maid and former beloved of Teodoro (vocals: Elena Driatskaya)
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - Tristan, lackey and friend of Teodoro (voiced by Igor Efimov, Mikhail Boyarsky sang the couplets of drinking companions)
Victor Ilichev - Fabio, servant of Diana
Zinaida Sharko - Anard, Diana's maid and girlfriend
Gelena Ivlieva - Dorotea, Diana's maid and girlfriend of Marcela
Fyodor Nikitin - Ottavo, Diana's majordomo (voiced by Aleksandr Demyanenko)

Production

Initially, Oleg Yankovsky and Oleg Dahl auditioned for the role of Teodoro, and Mikhail Boyarsky was to play the role of the Marquis of Ricardo, which eventually was played Nikolai Karachentsov.

The film was shot in Livadia Palace, its gardens and in Lenfilm pavilions.

References

External links

The Dog in the Manger at IMDb

v t e Lope de Vega
Plays	Madness in Valencia (1590s) The Steel of Madrid (1608) The Dog in the Manger (1618) The Widow from Valencia (1600) Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña (1600s) Fuenteovejuna (1619) Fenisa's Hook (1617) The Best Mayor, The King (1620s) A Lady of Little Sense (1613) Punishment without Revenge (1631) Las bizarrías de Belisa (1990)
Adaptations	The King is the Best Mayor (1974) The Dog in the Manger (1978) The Dog in the Manger (1996) La Dama Boba (2006)
Related	Lope (2010 film) List of Lope de Vega's plays in English translation

v t e Films by Yan Frid
Surgery (1939) Lyubov Yarovaya (1953) Twelfth Night (1955) The Green Carriage (1967) Farewell to St. Petersburg (1972) The Dog in the Manger (1978) Die Fledermaus (1979)

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