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
Vladimir Basov
Anton Kruglov
Oleg Tabakov
Volodya
Aleksey Batalov
Gosha
Nikolai Kuznetsov
Nikolay Vasilyevich
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
self
Irina Muravyova
Lyudmila
Yevgeniya Khanayeva
Rachkov's mother
Vladimir Menshov
Gosha's friend (uncredited)
Raisa Ryazanova
Antonina
Liya Akhedzhakova
club director
Zoya Fyodorova
watchwoman
Vera Alentova
Katerina
Leonid Kharitonov
self
Vladimir Gusev
General
Aleksandr Pyatkov
accordionist at wedding (uncredited)
Yuri Vizbor
Natalya Vavilova
Aleksandra
Tatyana Konyukhova
self
Larisa Barabanova
bakery worker
Aleksandra Denisova
Gosha's neighbor
Georgiy Yumatov
self
Yuri Vasilyev
Rachkov
Vladlen Paulus
Pyotr Lednev
Larisa Danilina
bride
Aleksandra Danilova
Gosha's neighbor
Aleksandr Fatyushin
Gurin
Valentina Ushakova
Nikolay's mother
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
hospital nurse
Gennadiy Yalovich
Dima
Tatyana Zhukova-Kirtbaya
Polina
Boris Smorchkov
Nikolay
Viktor Uralsky
Nikolay's father
Mikhail Bocharov
Boris Aleksandrovich
Mikhail Zimin
professor Tikhomirov
Muza Krepkogorskaya
General's wife
Lyudmila Stoyanova
Lyudochka
Tatyana Nikitina
Natalia Sanko
Katerina's co-worker
Aleksandr Petrov
trade union head (uncredited)
Ivan Turchenkov
Shorty at Pub (uncredited)
Andrei Voznesenskiy
self (uncredited)
Viktor Neznanov
poet
Elena Volskaya
skyscraper watchman
Yuri Potyomkin
admirer (uncredited)
Inna Vykhodtseva
television director
Pavel Rudakov
self
Ivetta Kiselyova
Margarita
Yuri Perov
Perov, PHD
Mikhail Kalinkin
wedding guest (uncredited)
Igor Surovtsev
wedding guest (uncredited)
Galina Samokhina
store customer (uncredited)
Vladimir Firsov
bypasser (uncredited)
Viktor Lazarev
old man in elevator
Andrey Kartashov
film crew member (uncredited)
Dmitri Popov
Gena
Galina Dobrovolskaya
bakery worker
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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