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Москва Слезам Не Верит (Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears, Moskva slezam ne verit) is a 1979 Soviet film made by Mosfilm. It was written by Valentin Chernykh and directed by Vladimir Menshov. The leading roles were played by Menshov's wife Vera Alentova and by Aleksey Batalov.

It won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980, and was chosen to participate in the International Film Exchange. The following year, it was awarded the USSR State Prize.

Plot

The movie is set in the 1950s in Moscow. It tells a story about three provincial women who come to Moscow. They are settled in the same room in a dormitory and eventually become friends. Ekaterina, played by Vera Alentova, strives to earn her degree and also works hard on a factory. At a party she meets a man called Rudolf (Yuri Vasilyev) who works as a cameraman for a television channel. Eventially he seduces Ekaterina and makes her pregnant. After that Rudolf decides that a marriage is not an option. This leaves Katerina alone with a baby - Rudolf's mother refuses to shelter her and even finds a way to make an abortion. But Ekaterina ultimately decides to keep the baby.

The movie then takes a 20-year leap forward in time. First it shows Ekaterina with tears in her eyes going to sleep in a dormitory where she just arrived after bearing her daughter, Alexandra (later played by Natalya Vavilova). Then it shows Ekaterina waking up up to the sound of an alarm clock in her own apartment. She is still not married, but she is already a director of a large factory. She has a lover, a married man that is older than her, called Volodya (Oleg Tabakov), but she still feels that something is missing in her life.

But one evening when Ekaterina is going back home from her dacha on an elektrichka, she meets a man called Gosha (Aleksey Batalov). Soon after that they start seeing each other, but an unexpected return of Rudolf seems to ruin everything. Rudolf is part of the news reporters crew that arrives on Ekaterina's factory to make a report on the great production rate this factory is showing. He recognizes his ex-lover and wants to make amends and meet his daughter. Ekaterina tells him that she is about to get married and doesn't let him call and come to their home. But Rudolf comes against her will when Gosha, Ekaterina and Alexandra are having diner. He tells them about the interview, and at that moment Gosha finds out that Katerina is a director and that her salary must be bigger than his own. Being a man that can't let a woman be on top of him in any way, Gosha gets upset and leaves.

For several days he is nowhere to be seen, he doesn't call and doesn't come to Ekaterina, until at last she and her former dormitory rommates gather on her kitchen and decide that they have to do something. Nikolai Boris Smorchkov, the husband of Antonina sets out to find Gosha. He finds him drinking and after getting drunk with him he convinces Gosha to come back to Katerina.

The final scene of the movie is set on the kitchen of Ekaterina's flat. Gosha eats soup, while Ekaterina watches him with tears in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" Gosha says.

"It's been so long that I've been looking for you," Ekaterina replies.

"Eight days," Gosha says after a moment of thought.

"No," disagrees Ekaterina and repeats, "It's been so long that I've been looking for you."

Songs from the movie

Bésame mucho
By Sergei Nikitin and Tatyana Nikitina:
* Александра (Alexandra)
* Диалог у новогодней елки (A dialogue by the New Year tree)
By Klavdiya Shulzhenko:
* Давай закурим (Davai zakurim)

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