My Tender and Affectionate Beast(1978)

A love quadrangle is at the center of this plot. Three men fall in love with a young beautiful lady. She wants to get out of poverty and marries one of them. But, then she confesses her love to another. At the same time, she leaves her husband for the third… However, during a subsequent hunt, the woman is killed. Which of the jealous men committed the crime?

The plot of the movie is based on the novel ‘The Shooting Party’. The male roles went to famous actors Oleg Yankovsky, Kirill Lavrov and Leonid Markov, while Galina Belyaeva played the fragile beauty.

The movie was a co-production of the USSR and West Germany and was filmed by Moldovan director Emil Loteanu. Audiences around the world adored the waltz heard in the movie, which was written by composer Eugene Doga; U.S. President Ronald Reagan even called this music “the waltz of the century”.