Drama Comedy Romance
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.
Directed by
Vladimir Menshov
Written by
Valentin Chernykh
Aleksandr Petrov
trade union head (uncredited)
Zoya Fyodorova
watchwoman
Vladimir Menshov
Gosha's friend (uncredited)
Natalya Vavilova
Aleksandra
Aleksandr Fatyushin
Gurin
Aleksey Batalov
Gosha
Elena Volskaya
skyscraper watchman
Mikhail Kalinkin
wedding guest (uncredited)
Raisa Ryazanova
Antonina
Vladimir Basov
Anton Kruglov
Inna Vykhodtseva
television director
Irina Muravyova
Lyudmila
Leonid Kharitonov
self
Muza Krepkogorskaya
General's wife
Tatyana Nikitina
Mikhail Zimin
professor Tikhomirov
Yuri Vasilyev
Rachkov
Viktor Neznanov
poet
Liya Akhedzhakova
club director
Vladimir Gusev
General
Larisa Barabanova
bakery worker
Boris Smorchkov
Nikolay
Aleksandra Danilova
Gosha's neighbor
Tatyana Zhukova-Kirtbaya
Polina
Nikolay Kuznetsov
Nikolay Vasilyevich
Yuri Potyomkin
admirer (uncredited)
Ivan Turchenkov
Shorty at Pub (uncredited)
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
self
Oleg Tabakov
Volodya
Aleksandr Pyatkov
accordionist at wedding (uncredited)
Vera Alentova
Katerina
Vladlen Paulus
Pyotr Lednev
Larisa Danilina
bride
Mikhail Bocharov
Boris Aleksandrovich
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
hospital nurse
Igor Surovtsev
wedding guest (uncredited)
Pavel Rudakov
self
Aleksandra Denisova
Gosha's neighbor
Viktor Uralsky
Nikolay's father
Tatyana Konyukhova
self
Georgiy Yumatov
self
Natalia Sanko
Katerina's co-worker
Vladimir Firsov
bypasser (uncredited)
Yuri Perov
Perov, PHD
Andrey Kartashov
film crew member (uncredited)
Yuri Vizbor
Yevgeniya Khanayeva
Rachkov's mother
Gennadiy Yalovich
Dima
Lyudmila Stoyanova
Lyudochka
Dmitri Popov
Gena
Galina Dobrovolskaya
bakery worker
Andrei Voznesenskiy
self (uncredited)
Viktor Lazarev
old man in elevator
Valentina Ushakova
Nikolay's mother
Galina Samokhina
store customer (uncredited)
Ivetta Kiselyova
Margarita
Yuri Zaev
wedding guest (uncredited)
Veniamin Nechaev
self
Irina Berezina
Irochka
Aleksandr Zhiltsov
Nikita, Aleksandra's friend
Yuri Koblov
Gena
Vladislav Matveev
Vitya Rachkov
Eduard Ozeryanskiy
self
Alfred Solyanov
Gosha's friend
Nina Savishcheva
Marina
Anatoli Chebotaryov
Anatoliy Grigoryevich
Taysiya Shutova
bride
Boris Andreev
domino player (uncredited)
Aleksei Drozdov
domino player (uncredited)
Roman Kopeykin
hooligan (uncredited)
Aleksandr Novikov
plasterer (uncredited)
Raisa Sazonova
hostel neighbour (uncredited)
Vladislav Serdyuk
pub visitor (uncredited)
Nikolay Styrov
hooligan (uncredited)
Aleksey Shubin
Antonina and Nikolay's son (uncredited)
Mikhail Shubin
Antonina and Nikolay's son (uncredited)
Igor Godlevskiy
visitor to the Lenin Library (uncredited)
Kaleriya Studenkina
episode (uncredited)

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