The Wild Dog Dingo
The Wild Dog Dingo is a 1962 Soviet love triangle drama film directed by Yuli Karasik. It is based on the novel by Ruvim Frayerman.
Plot
A girl Tanya lives with her divorced mother in a small Russian Far East City of Primorsk. Her father, colonel, whom she had never seen, was dispatched from Moscow to Primorsk and brings his wife and his adopted son Kolya with him. Tanya and Kolya become friends and fall in love. A part of the drama is a local Nanai boy Filka, Tanya's long-time childhood friend.Reception
The parting scene of Filka and Tanya, when Tanya sees the suntanned imprint of her name on Filka's chest demonstrates Fraerman's idea of the eternity of natural human feelings.Cast
- Galina Polskikh as Tanya
- as Kolya
- Talas Umurzakov as Filka, a Nanai boy, Tanya's childhood friend, who is in love with her
- as Zhenya
- as mother
- as father
- as father's second wife
- as Aleksandra Ivanovna
- as Tanya's grandmother