Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
Moskva slezam ne verit
The Funniest, Tenderest Love Story of the Year.
150 min
Living together in a workers' dorm, Katerina and her friends are determined to make it in Moscow. But when a boorish cameraman forces himself on her, Katerina finds herself pregnant and alone as her friends move on. Twenty years later, Katerina is a factory director, outpacing her old roommates career-wise, yet still alone but for her daughter. Love seems possible again when she meets a genial mechanic.
- Release date
- February 11, 1980
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Music
- Sergey Nikitin
- Budget
- $900,000
- Box office
- $2,500,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Vera Alentova as Katerina 'Katya' Tikhomirova
- Aleksey Batalov as Georgiy 'Gosha'
- Irina Muravyova as Lyudmila Sviridova
- Aleksandr Fatyushin as Sergey 'Seryozha' Gurin
- Raisa Ryazanova as Antonina Buyanova
- Boris Smorchkov as Nikolay
- Yuriy Vasilev as Rodion 'Rudolph' Rachkov
- Natalya Vavilova as Aleksandra - Katerina's Daughter
- Oleg Tabakov as Volodya
- Yevgeniya Khanayeva as Rachkov's Mother
- Viktor Uralskiy as Nikolay's father
- Zoya Fyodorova as watchwoman
- Liya Akhedzhakova as club director
- Tatyana Konyukhova as self
- Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as self
- Georgiy Yumatov as self
- Leonid Kharitonov as self
- Vladimir Basov as Anton Kruglov
- Garri Bardin as chief chemical plant engineer
- Aleksandr Borodyanskiy as Gosha's friend
- Larisa Barabanova as bakery worker
- Mikhail Bocharov as Boris Aleksandrovich
- Vladimir Gusev as General
- Larisa Danilina as bride
Crew
- Vladimir Menshov · Director
- Valentin Chernykh · Writer
- Vladimir Menshov · Writer
- Sergey Nikitin · Composer
- Igor Slabnevich · Cinematographer
- Yelena Mikhaylova · Editor
- Said Menyalshchikov · Production designer