Three Men in a Boat (1979 film)

Three Men in a Boat
Written by	Semyon Lungin
Directed by	Naum Birman
Starring	Andrei Mironov Alexander Schirvindt Mikhail Derzhavin
Music by	Alexander Kolker
Country of origin	Soviet Union
Original language	Russian
Production
Cinematography	Genrikh Marandzhan
Running time	127 min.
Production company	Lenfilm
Original release
Release	1979 (1979)

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Russian: Трое в лодке, не считая собаки, romanized: Troe v lodke, ne schitaya sobaki) is a 1979 Soviet two-part musical-comedy miniseries directed by Naum Birman and based on the eponymous 1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome.

Plot

Three friends: J, Harris and George, tired of idleness and wanting to correct their ill health, decide to go on a boat trip along the Thames. Together they take the fox terrier Montmorency. Before their journey, they agree to travel without females. But almost immediately on the road, they meet three women going the same way as themselves: Anne, Emily and Patricia. First, the heroes try to keep their agreement, but then fall in love with these women and the women fall in love with them. In the finale, they are three couples in love.

In the final episode of the film, it is understood that Jerome K. Jerome invented his friends and the whole story from loneliness.

Cast

• Andrei Mironov as Jerome K. Jerome / J. / Mrs. Baikli (1 series) / Uncle Podger (ibid.) / Innkeeper (2 series) / visitor to the inn (ibid.)
• Alexander Schirvindt as Sir Samuel William Harris
• Mikhail Derzhavin as George (voiced by Igor Efimov)
• Larisa Golubkina as Anne
• Alina Pokrovskaya as Emily
• Irina Mazurkiewicz as Patricia
• Zinovy Gerdt as gravedigger (1 series)
• Nikolai Boyarsky as 1st Grenadier (ibid.)
• Grigory Shpigel as 2nd Grenadier (ibid.)
• Yuri Katin-Yartsev as 3rd Grenadier (ibid.)
• Anna Lisyanskaya as the hostess of the salon, whom the performance of comic songs leaves without guests (ibid.)
• Georgy Shtil as mustachioed captain
• Tatyana Pelttser as Mrs. Poppits, the landlady
• Fox Terriers "Duke" and "Sin" as Montmorency

External links

• Three Men in a Boat at IMDb