Maschenka (Russian: Машенька, Mashen'ka; English: Mary) is a 1987 international film adaptation of the debut novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first published under his pen name V. Sirin in 1926.
Now living in a boarding house in Berlin, Ganin discovers that his long-lost first love, Maschenka, is the wife of the rather unappealing boarder next door, Alfyrov, and that and she is on her way to rejoin her husband.
This knowledge, combined with the incessant recitation of his memories of old Russia by another boarder, Podtyagin, sends him into a state of reverie.
All I can say is that insurance policies for the film industry back then were not as sophisticated as they are now, so shutting down production wasn't really an option.
[emphasis in original][1]Goldschmidt won the Cine De Luca Award for Directing at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.