''Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)'' () is a 1979 Soviet two-part

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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

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. Together they take the

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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 Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1889). Other works include the essay collections '' Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow'' (1886) an ...

/ J. / Mrs. Baikli (1 series) / Uncle Podger (ibid.) / Innkeeper (2 series) / visitor to the inn (ibid.) *

Alexander Schirvindt Aleksandr Anatolyevich Shirvindt (, 19 July 1934 – 15 March 2024) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, educator, screenwriter and voice actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1989). In 2000, he became a theatre director of Moscow Satir ...

as Sir Samuel William Harris *

Mikhail Derzhavin Mikhail Mikhajlovich Derzhavin(; 15 June 1936, Moscow – 10 January 2018, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Biography Mikhail Mikhajlovich Derzhavin was born in the family of the People's Artist of the RSFSR, who was the leading actor of ...

as George (voiced by Igor Efimov) *

Larisa Golubkina Larisa Ivanovna Golubkina (; March 9, 1940 – March 22, 2025) was a Soviet and later Russian actress and singer. Life and career Golubkina was born on March 9, 1940. She entered the Moscow Musical School in 1955, graduating after four years, a ...

as Anne * Alina Pokrovskaya as Emily * Irina Mazurkiewicz as Patricia *

Zinovy Gerdt Zalman Afroimovich Khrapinovich (21 September 191618 November 1996), known by the pseudonym Zinovy Yefimovich Gerdt, was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1990. Biography Early life and education Ger ...

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 Anna Lisyanskaya born Hanna Hryhorivna Lysyanska (1 November 1917 - 2 December 1999) was a Ukrainian and Russian theater and film actress of Jewish origin. Early life and education Hanna Lysyanska was born on 1 November 1917 in Mykolaiv in a th ...

as the hostess of the salon, whom the performance of comic songs leaves without guests (ibid.) *

Georgy Shtil Georgy may refer to: * Georgy (given name), a list of people with the Slavic masculine name Georgy, Georgi or Georgiy * Georgy, the protagonist in ''Georgy Girl'' novel, film, and song ** ''Georgy'' (musical), a musical based on the novel ''Georgy ...

as mustachioed captain *

Tatyana Pelttser Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser (; ; June 6, 1904 in Moscow – July 16, 1992 in Moscow), was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1972). Biography Tatyana Ivanovna Pelttser (or Peltzer) born into the family ...

as Mrs. Poppits, the landlady *

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s "Duke" and "Sin" as Montmorency

References

External links

* Soviet musical comedy films Soviet television miniseries Films based on works by Jerome K. Jerome 1970s television miniseries 1970s musical comedy films 1970s Russian-language films 1970s Soviet films Russian-language musical comedy films 1979 musical films {{1970s-USSR-film-stub