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EDNOTE. My thanks to the many people who replied to my query.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Bellino" <iambe@rcn.com>
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> The film was "The Shooting Party," released in 1977,
> directed by Emil Loteanu and starring Galina Belyayeva and
> Oleg Yankovsky. Its title was "Moi laskovyi i nezhnyi zver'."
>
> A more famous movie with the same title, but based on a
> novel by Isabel Colegate, was made in 1984 by the
> Merchant-Ivory team. It stars none other than James Mason,
> and it's one of those British-aristocracy-on-the-eve-of-WW1
> films.
>
> I haven't seen either one, although they both sound like
> good viewing for a rainy weekend.
>
> Running the phrase
>
> "The Shooting Party" Chekhov
>
> through a serach engine such as Google will turn up numerous
> summaries and vendors of the film Don is looking for (along
> with stuff on the Chekhov work it's based on).
>
> Mary
>
> > "D. Barton Johnson" wrote:
> >
> > Some years ago there was a British film called, I think,
> > "The Hunting Party," based on a Chekhov story but with
> > the scene moved to England. Not to be confused with the
> > 1971 Western epic of the same title starring Gene Hackman.
> > The Russian title was different. Can anyone pinpoint this
> > for me? Thank you, NABOKV-L Editor
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Bellino" <iambe@rcn.com>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (31
lines) ------------------
> The film was "The Shooting Party," released in 1977,
> directed by Emil Loteanu and starring Galina Belyayeva and
> Oleg Yankovsky. Its title was "Moi laskovyi i nezhnyi zver'."
>
> A more famous movie with the same title, but based on a
> novel by Isabel Colegate, was made in 1984 by the
> Merchant-Ivory team. It stars none other than James Mason,
> and it's one of those British-aristocracy-on-the-eve-of-WW1
> films.
>
> I haven't seen either one, although they both sound like
> good viewing for a rainy weekend.
>
> Running the phrase
>
> "The Shooting Party" Chekhov
>
> through a serach engine such as Google will turn up numerous
> summaries and vendors of the film Don is looking for (along
> with stuff on the Chekhov work it's based on).
>
> Mary
>
> > "D. Barton Johnson" wrote:
> >
> > Some years ago there was a British film called, I think,
> > "The Hunting Party," based on a Chekhov story but with
> > the scene moved to England. Not to be confused with the
> > 1971 Western epic of the same title starring Gene Hackman.
> > The Russian title was different. Can anyone pinpoint this
> > for me? Thank you, NABOKV-L Editor
>