Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (Russian: ÐœÐ¾Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð° Ñ Ð»ÐµÐ·Ð°Ð¼
не верит, romanized: Moskva slezam ne verit) is a 1980 Soviet
film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed
by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Vera Alentova
and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film in 1981. The film received mixed reviews from
critics.The film is set in Moscow in 1958 and 1979. The plot centers
on three young women: Katerina, Lyudmila, and Antonina, who come to
Moscow from smaller towns. They are placed together in a workers'
dormitory room and eventually become friends. Antonina (Raisa
Ryazanova) is seeing Nikolai, a reserved but kind young man whose
parents have a dacha in the country. Katerina (Vera Alentova) is a
serious, upstanding woman who strives to earn her chemistry degree
while working at a factory. She is asked to house-sit an apartment for
her well-to-do Moscow relatives (a famous professor's family) while
they are away on a trip. Lyudmila (Irina Muravyova), a flirty
go-getter looking for a well-to-do husband while working at a bakery,
convinces her to throw a dinner party at the apartment, and pretend
that they are the daughters of Katerina's professor uncle, as a ploy
to meet successful Muscovite men. At the party, Lyudmila meets Sergei,
a famous hockey player, who falls in love with her and marries her
even after discovering the truth about her origin. Katerina meets
Rodion (Yuri Vasilyev), a smooth talker who works as a cameraman for a
television channel. They start dating. During Antonina and Nikolai's
wedding, Lyudmila and Antonina find out that Katerina is pregnant.
Upon discovering that Katerina deceived him and is not the daughter of
a professor, Rodion refuses to marry her and believes that she is to
have an abortion. Katerina is unable to get an abortion because her
pregnancy is in a late stage and ends up giving birth.The film shows
Katerina, with tears in her eyes, setting her alarm clock in the
dormitory room she shares with her daughter, Aleksandra (subsequently
played as a grown young woman by Natalya Vavilova). The film then
takes a 20-year leap forward in time to 1979. Katerina is shown waking
up to the sound of an alarm clock in her own apartment. She is still
single, but she has gone from being a down on her luck student to
becoming the executive director of a large factory. She has a lover,
an older married man named Vladimir (Oleg Tabakov), but she leaves him
after he shows himself to be cowardly and disrespectful. Despite her
successful career, Katerina is unfulfilled and weighed down by a deep
sadness. She is still close friends with Lyudmila and Antonina. By
this time Sergei has quit playing hockey and become an alcoholic,
having divorced Lyudmila, who is working at a laundry. Antonina is
happily married and has three children.One evening, when Katerina is
returning home from Antonina's dacha in the countryside on an
elektrichka, she meets a man, Gosha (Aleksey Batalov), who starts a
dialogue with her. She sees his shabby boots and dismisses him at
first, but the dialogue continues. Soon afterward they start seeing
each other. Gosha is an intelligent tool-and-die maker who believes
that a woman must not make more money than her husband, so Katerina
doesn't tell him about her position. As their romance begins, Rodion
unexpectedly reenters Katerina's life when he is assigned to film an
interview with her to do a report on her factory's success at
exceeding its production quota. At first, he does not recognize
Katerina, but when he does, he wants to meet his daughter. Katerina
tells him that she does not want to see him again. Nonetheless, Rodion
shows up uninvited at her apartment when Katerina is having dinner
with Gosha and Aleksandra. Rodion tells Gosha and Aleksandra about the
interview, and Gosha finds out that Katerina is a factory director.
His pride is hurt not only because of Katerina's high position and
large salary, but also because she has deceived and offended him
before, and he leaves the apartment. Unable to stop him, Katerina is
upset with Rodion. She reveals to Aleksandra that Rodion is, in fact,
her father.
не верит, romanized: Moskva slezam ne verit) is a 1980 Soviet
film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed
by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Vera Alentova
and by Aleksey Batalov. The film won the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film in 1981. The film received mixed reviews from
critics.The film is set in Moscow in 1958 and 1979. The plot centers
on three young women: Katerina, Lyudmila, and Antonina, who come to
Moscow from smaller towns. They are placed together in a workers'
dormitory room and eventually become friends. Antonina (Raisa
Ryazanova) is seeing Nikolai, a reserved but kind young man whose
parents have a dacha in the country. Katerina (Vera Alentova) is a
serious, upstanding woman who strives to earn her chemistry degree
while working at a factory. She is asked to house-sit an apartment for
her well-to-do Moscow relatives (a famous professor's family) while
they are away on a trip. Lyudmila (Irina Muravyova), a flirty
go-getter looking for a well-to-do husband while working at a bakery,
convinces her to throw a dinner party at the apartment, and pretend
that they are the daughters of Katerina's professor uncle, as a ploy
to meet successful Muscovite men. At the party, Lyudmila meets Sergei,
a famous hockey player, who falls in love with her and marries her
even after discovering the truth about her origin. Katerina meets
Rodion (Yuri Vasilyev), a smooth talker who works as a cameraman for a
television channel. They start dating. During Antonina and Nikolai's
wedding, Lyudmila and Antonina find out that Katerina is pregnant.
Upon discovering that Katerina deceived him and is not the daughter of
a professor, Rodion refuses to marry her and believes that she is to
have an abortion. Katerina is unable to get an abortion because her
pregnancy is in a late stage and ends up giving birth.The film shows
Katerina, with tears in her eyes, setting her alarm clock in the
dormitory room she shares with her daughter, Aleksandra (subsequently
played as a grown young woman by Natalya Vavilova). The film then
takes a 20-year leap forward in time to 1979. Katerina is shown waking
up to the sound of an alarm clock in her own apartment. She is still
single, but she has gone from being a down on her luck student to
becoming the executive director of a large factory. She has a lover,
an older married man named Vladimir (Oleg Tabakov), but she leaves him
after he shows himself to be cowardly and disrespectful. Despite her
successful career, Katerina is unfulfilled and weighed down by a deep
sadness. She is still close friends with Lyudmila and Antonina. By
this time Sergei has quit playing hockey and become an alcoholic,
having divorced Lyudmila, who is working at a laundry. Antonina is
happily married and has three children.One evening, when Katerina is
returning home from Antonina's dacha in the countryside on an
elektrichka, she meets a man, Gosha (Aleksey Batalov), who starts a
dialogue with her. She sees his shabby boots and dismisses him at
first, but the dialogue continues. Soon afterward they start seeing
each other. Gosha is an intelligent tool-and-die maker who believes
that a woman must not make more money than her husband, so Katerina
doesn't tell him about her position. As their romance begins, Rodion
unexpectedly reenters Katerina's life when he is assigned to film an
interview with her to do a report on her factory's success at
exceeding its production quota. At first, he does not recognize
Katerina, but when he does, he wants to meet his daughter. Katerina
tells him that she does not want to see him again. Nonetheless, Rodion
shows up uninvited at her apartment when Katerina is having dinner
with Gosha and Aleksandra. Rodion tells Gosha and Aleksandra about the
interview, and Gosha finds out that Katerina is a factory director.
His pride is hurt not only because of Katerina's high position and
large salary, but also because she has deceived and offended him
before, and he leaves the apartment. Unable to stop him, Katerina is
upset with Rodion. She reveals to Aleksandra that Rodion is, in fact,
her father.
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