Drama · Comedy · Romance
Soviet (Москва слезам не верит)
1980 · Directed by Vladimir Menshov · 142 min
Three young women share a workers' dormitory in late-1950s Moscow, each with her own plan for making the city hers. The film mixes warm comedy, romance and social observation, and then revisits the city twenty years later to see what those plans became.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining popular film of late Soviet cinema, it shows how the mainstream studio system could make a genuinely humane, audience-pleasing melodrama about work and gender at a time of official stagnation.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a portrait of a city and an era, seen through how three friends define success differently.
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