Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed (film)

Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed (Russian: Чужая жена и муж под кроватью, romanized: Chuzhaya zhena i muzh pod krovatyu) is a 1984 Soviet TV comedy film directed by Vitaly Melnikov.

The film is a vaudevillian story about a solid, venerable, jealous husband (Oleg Tabakov) who is searching for his frivolous wife (Marina Shimanskaya).

Yuri Bogatyryov had only one free day, so he invented his costume and changed closes on the way from Moscow to Leningrad, thus upon arrival everyone witnessed a 19th-century nobleman casually walking out of a Soviet train.

[1] Writer Yevgeni Popov called the original story "an amusingly talented, funny, light, playful thing" written by a "then-lad Dostoevsky", and noted that a significant part of future absurdists such as Daniil Kharms or Nikolay Oleynikov owed him.

"Usually such a severe man flexing his jaw muscles, here he appears as an elderly relaxed gentleman".