The read
Audiences rate it 40 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes40%
Audiences rate it 40 points higher than critics do.
296 audience votes
Key crew
- Vladimir MenshovDirector
- Valentin ChernykhWriter
- Sergey NikitinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Vera AlentovaKaterina
- Aleksey BatalovGosha
- Irina MuravyovaLyudmila
- Aleksandr FatyushinGurin
- Raisa RyazanovaAntonina
- Boris SmorchkovNikolay
- Yuri VasilyevRachkov
- Natalya VavilovaAleksandra
- Oleg TabakovVolodya
- Yevgeniya KhanayevaRachkov's mother
- Valentina UshakovaNikolay's mother
- Viktor UralskyNikolay's father
Stills
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Themes
young lovemoscow, russia
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