Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
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.
Director: Vladimir Menshov
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Vera Alentova as Katerina |
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Aleksey Batalov as Gosha |
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Irina Muravyova as Lyudmila |
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Aleksandr Fatyushin as Gurin |
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Raisa Ryazanova as Antonina |
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Boris Smorchkov as Nikolay |
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Yuri Vasilyev as Rachkov |
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Natalya Vavilova as Aleksandra |
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Oleg Tabakov as Volodya |
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Yevgeniya Khanayeva as Rachkov's mother |
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Valentina Ushakova as Nikolay's mother |
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Viktor Uralsky as Nikolay's father |
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Zoya Fyodorova as watchwoman |
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Liya Akhedzhakova as club director |
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Tatyana Konyukhova as self |
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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as self |
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Georgiy Yumatov as self |
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Leonid Kharitonov as self |
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Pavel Rudakov as self |
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Veniamin Nechaev as self |
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Vladimir Basov as Anton Kruglov |
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Garri Bardin as chief chemical plant engineer |
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Irina Berezina as Irochka |
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Aleksandr Borodyanskiy as Gosha's friend |
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Larisa Barabanova as bakery worker |
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Mikhail Bocharov as Boris Aleksandrovich |
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Inna Vykhodtseva as television director |
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Elena Volskaya as skyscraper watchman |
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Vladimir Gusev as General |
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Larisa Danilina as bride |
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Aleksandra Denisova as Gosha's neighbor |
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Aleksandra Danilova as Gosha's neighbor |
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Galina Dobrovolskaya as bakery worker |
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Aleksandr Zhiltsov as Nikita, Aleksandra's friend |
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Tatyana Zhukova-Kirtbaya as Polina |
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Mikhail Zimin as professor Tikhomirov |
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Ivetta Kiselyova as Margarita |
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Muza Krepkogorskaya as General's wife |
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Yuri Koblov as Gena |
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Nikolai Kuznetsov as Nikolay Vasilyevich |
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Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya as hospital nurse |
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Viktor Lazarev as old man in elevator |
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Vladislav Matveev as Vitya Rachkov |
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Viktor Neznanov as poet |
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Eduard Ozeryanskiy as self |
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Dmitri Popov as Gena |
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Vladlen Paulus as Pyotr Lednev |
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Lyudmila Stoyanova as Lyudochka |
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Yuri Perov as Perov, PHD |
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Natalia Sanko as Katerina's co-worker |
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Alfred Solyanov as Gosha's friend |
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Nina Savishcheva as Marina |
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Anatoli Chebotaryov as Anatoliy Grigoryevich |
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Taysiya Shutova as bride |
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Gennadiy Yalovich as Dima |
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Boris Andreev as domino player (uncredited) |
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Andrei Voznesenskiy as self (uncredited) |
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Aleksei Drozdov as domino player (uncredited) |
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Yuri Zaev as wedding guest (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Kalinkin as wedding guest (uncredited) |
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Andrey Kartashov as film crew member (uncredited) |
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Roman Kopeykin as hooligan (uncredited) |
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Vladimir Menshov as Gosha's friend (uncredited) |
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Aleksandr Novikov as plasterer (uncredited) |
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Aleksandr Petrov as trade union head (uncredited) |
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Yuri Potyomkin as admirer (uncredited) |
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Aleksandr Pyatkov as accordionist at wedding (uncredited) |
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Raisa Sazonova as hostel neighbour (uncredited) |
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Galina Samokhina as store customer (uncredited) |
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Igor Surovtsev as wedding guest (uncredited) |
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Vladislav Serdyuk as pub visitor (uncredited) |
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Nikolay Styrov as hooligan (uncredited) |
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Ivan Turchenkov as Shorty at Pub (uncredited) |
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Vladimir Firsov as bypasser (uncredited) |
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Aleksey Shubin as Antonina and Nikolay's son (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Shubin as Antonina and Nikolay's son (uncredited) |
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Igor Godlevskiy as visitor to the Lenin Library (uncredited) |
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Kaleriya Studenkina as episode (uncredited) |
| Directing | Vladimir Menshov | Director |
| Writing | Valentin Chernykh | Writer |
| Editing | Yelena Mikhaylova | Editor |
| Camera | Igor Slabnevich | Director of Photography |
| Art | Said Menyalshchikov | Production Design |
| Sound | Emin Khachaturyan | Conductor |
| Directing | Vladimir Kuchinsky | First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Yuri Potapov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Writing | Lyudmila Tsitsina | Script Editor |
| Sound | Sergey Nikitin | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Dmitriy Sukharev | Lyricist |
| Writing | Yuri Vizbor | Lyricist |
| Writing | Yuri Levitansky | Lyricist |
| Sound | Mark Bronshteyn | Sound Director |
| Visual Effects | Oksana Kazakova | VFX Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Polina Kuzmina | Makeup & Hair |
| Costume & Make-Up | Zhanna Melkonyan | Costume Design |
| Production | Vitali Boguslavsky | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Sergey Nikitin | Songs |
| Sound | Tatyana Nikitina | Songs |
| Camera | Anatoliy Dzhirkvelov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Igor Bek | Camera Operator |