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My Tender and Affectionate Beast
My Tender and Affectionate Beast
7.6
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95 Ratings

MY TENDER AND AFFECTIONATE BEAST

Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver

Directed by Emil Loteanu
Soviet Union, 1978
Drama, Romance

Synopsis

Emil Loteanu’s very popular adaptation of Chekhov’s novel The Shooting Party takes place in the 19th-century Russian countryside where a story of crime and passion unfolds. Beautiful but poor, young Olga is forced to marry elderly Prince Urbenin.

Synopsis

Emil Loteanu’s very popular adaptation of Chekhov’s novel The Shooting Party takes place in the 19th-century Russian countryside where a story of crime and passion unfolds. Beautiful but poor, young Olga is forced to marry elderly Prince Urbenin.