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"Moscow Does Not Believe in
Tears"
1980
Directed by Vladimir Menshov
Winner of the 1981
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. A trio of young women come to Moscow
in the 1950's, seeking work and romance in Vladimir Menshov's melodrama about
the cruel anonymity of city life. Structured in two parts, the first half is set in
1958, as the three Russian girls are shunned to a workers' dormitory. Tonya (Raisa
Ryazanova) finds happiness; Ludmila (Irina Muraveva) is trapped in an unhealthy and
oppressive marriage; and Katerina (Vera Alentova) is cruely abandoned when her lover
discovers that she's pregnant. The second half catches up with their lives 20 years later.
With Alexei Batalov, Alexander Fatiushin and Boris Smorchkov. Russian with English
subtitles.
148 minutes. |
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