Unit 1: Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
First, a quick synopsis of the movie for those who have not seen it.
The story is divided into two parts separated by a twenty year interval. The first half takes place in 1958 when Katya and her friends, Lyudmila and Antonina, are living in a workers' dormitory in Moscow and making plans for their futures. Lyudmila is anxious to meet interesting and sophisticated men, going so far as to try to persuade the woman at the front desk to answer the dorm phone as if it were a private residence and not a dorm for factory workers.
When Katya is asked to apartment-sit for her uncle, the professor, Lyudmila seizes on this opportunity to stay in a posh apartment. She suggests to Katya that they pose as the professor's daughters and invites several interesting gentlemen over for a dinner party. Katya goes along with the plan and meets a tv cameraman who has a grand vision of the future of television. Soon, however, the same cameraman is sent to the factory where Katya works and the deception is revealed.
The relationship ends but Katya has become pregnant and gives birth to her daughter, Alexandra.
The story resumes in 1978 and picks up with the lives of these women as they have turned out, often in contrast to what they thought they would be like. While Antonina is happily married, Lyudmila's marriage to a star hockey player ended badly when he became an alcoholic.
Katya is still at the same factory but she is now its director and a successful business woman. Her daughter, Alexandra, lives with her but she is now an adult. Katya is now middle-aged, still single and involved with a married man. Although she is successful in her career and as a single mother, her personal life has run a distant third.
That is, until a chance meeting on a train brings Gosha into her life. Their romance flourishes until it is threatened by Gosha's discovery that Katya has a better job than his own. Further complications arise with the arrival of Alexandra's father. In the end, all ends happily around Katya's table.
The story is divided into two parts separated by a twenty year interval. The first half takes place in 1958 when Katya and her friends, Lyudmila and Antonina, are living in a workers' dormitory in Moscow and making plans for their futures. Lyudmila is anxious to meet interesting and sophisticated men, going so far as to try to persuade the woman at the front desk to answer the dorm phone as if it were a private residence and not a dorm for factory workers.
When Katya is asked to apartment-sit for her uncle, the professor, Lyudmila seizes on this opportunity to stay in a posh apartment. She suggests to Katya that they pose as the professor's daughters and invites several interesting gentlemen over for a dinner party. Katya goes along with the plan and meets a tv cameraman who has a grand vision of the future of television. Soon, however, the same cameraman is sent to the factory where Katya works and the deception is revealed.
The relationship ends but Katya has become pregnant and gives birth to her daughter, Alexandra.
The story resumes in 1978 and picks up with the lives of these women as they have turned out, often in contrast to what they thought they would be like. While Antonina is happily married, Lyudmila's marriage to a star hockey player ended badly when he became an alcoholic.
Katya is still at the same factory but she is now its director and a successful business woman. Her daughter, Alexandra, lives with her but she is now an adult. Katya is now middle-aged, still single and involved with a married man. Although she is successful in her career and as a single mother, her personal life has run a distant third.
That is, until a chance meeting on a train brings Gosha into her life. Their romance flourishes until it is threatened by Gosha's discovery that Katya has a better job than his own. Further complications arise with the arrival of Alexandra's father. In the end, all ends happily around Katya's table.
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