Love and betrayal - a favorite literary story, starting with the "Iliad" of Homer, when the beautiful Elena ran away from her husband with her lover. Having migrated from the pages of books to screens, stories have not changed much since then: an unhappy woman seeks solace or a lascivious man has fun on the side.
"Autumn marathon"
Russian film about the betrayal of husband by wife, shot back in Soviet times in 1979. A sad comedy about a man trying to lead a double life with a philosophical ending that did not suit many spectators. According to some, the protagonist should have gone to his mistress, while others, probably faithful wives, believed that he should abandon his mistress. The Soviet authorities insisted that the unfaithful husband should be roughly punished.
The protagonist Andrei Buzykin (Oleg Basilashvili) is a teacher at Leningrad University and a translator. He is torn between his tortured wife Nina (Natalya Gundareva) and his young lover Alla (Marina Neyolova). Soft-bodied Buzykin tries not to conflict with anyone. He drinks with a fitter neighbor and runs with a Danish professor when they insist. Women are bored by the duality of their position, and they leave the indecisive man. True, then both return and everything goes in the usual circle.
"Love and pigeons"
The lyrical comedy Russian film about love and betrayal was shot in Soviet times, in 1984. In 2009, the film received the MTV Russia award as the best Soviet film. The picture is based on a true story that happened in the city of Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region.
Vasily Kuzyakin (Alexander Mikhailov), an employee of the timber industry farm and a fan of pigeon breeding, lives in a village with his wife (Nina Doroshina) and three children. After receiving an industrial injury, he flies on a union ticket to the sea. At the resort he meets with Raisa Zakharovna (Lyudmila Gurchenko), the head of the personnel department of the timber industry, where he works. An exalted and unbalanced woman so captivates Kuzyakin that he leaves the family. However, life with a new passion did not work out, and Vasya returns to the village, where he settles in a hut. Then, after all, he reconciles with his wife. This is one of the best Russian films about treason, and with a happy ending
"Anna Karenina. History of Vronsky"
The literary basis of the script was not only the famous novel by Leo Tolstoy, but also works about the Japanese war by another Russian writer - Vincent Veresaev. The most famous story in the world about the betrayal of his wife in a Russian film, in an updated reading. The film received moderate ratings from critics and viewers. "Anna Karenina. History of Vronsky" (2017) was shot by order of the TV channel "Russia", but exclusively for sponsorship money.
The action of the picture goes in two plot directions: the actual story of Anna Karenina (Elizabeth Boyarskaya) and the Russo-Japanese War, where Count Vronsky (Maxim Matveev) and her son Sergei Karenin (Kirill Grebenshchikov) meet. Sergei, senior resident of a military hospital, operates on Colonel Vronsky. In the evening he comes to the ward and asks to tell why his mother threw herself under a train thirty years ago.
"Where does love go?"
The 2014 melodrama was shot by director Andrei Selivanov, who gained fame after the TV series Sklifosovsky. This Russian film about treason received a lot of positive audience reviews, which noted a good acting.
The main character Natalia (Maria Kulikova) works as a teacher, married second businessman to businessman Stas (Sergey Astakhov). Raises a son Vanya (Ilya Korobko). However, all visible prosperity collapses on the same day, when Natalia finds out that her husband is cheating on another woman. She is shocked by treason, but in real horror comes when she finds out that Stas's lover is the girl of her son.
"Locust"
A dramatic thriller with erotic scenes filmed in 2013, also has a four-part television version. In 2015, he received awards for Best Film and Best Cinematography at the Portsmouth International Film Festival. Locust is the most impressive Russian film about treason in recent years. The name of the picture builds an associative series from the generation of "consumption", which wants everything at once. Young people who, like locusts, destroy everything in their path, leaving behind a devastated land.
Artem (Petr Fedorov), a simple working guy and a budding poet, came to a rich country house, where he and his friend should put together a gazebo. While working, he meets Leroy (Paulina Andreeva), a Moscow bohemian girl. Flushed passion has a destructive effect on everything that they touch. Lera marries a friend of her father, Artyom in revenge marries a rich woman older than him. Despite this, they continue to meet, for lovers there are no restrictions, attraction destroys all obstacles. Artem loses control over his emotions and begins to kill everyone who prevents them from being together.
"Treason"
The film by the famous director Kirill Serebrennikov received a good praise from critics. Participated in the competition program of the Venice Festival. The main roles were played by German actress Francis Petri and the Macedonian actor Dejan Lilić. The role of the "traitor" was played by the popular singer Albina Dzhanabaeva. The director said he wanted to "make a chamber story about the properties of passion." When Serebrennikov was asked why he invited foreigners to the main roles in the Russian film about treason, he replied that he had not divided actors into Russian and non-Russian for a long time.
A stylish picture, sustained in calm intonations, the story of a man and a woman. Unnamed heroes He and She learn that their spouses are lovers. She shows him photographs, a hotel, a room, always the same where their soul mates meet. The deceived spouses decide to “take revenge”, but the woman burst into tears at the last moment and her revenge failed. Lovers die falling from the balcony during sex. After a few years, He and She meet, they have new families. But they are irresistibly drawn to each other. And they go to the same hotel, rent the same room. Chamber Russian film about treason received very good reviews from the audience.