Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980) on Netflix
NR19802h 22mComedyDramaRomance
Katerina works in a factory and studies at night, sharing a Moscow dorm with Lyudmila and Antonina. A dinner party to meet successful men brings the cameraman Rudolf into her life.
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- Rotten Tomatoes40%
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Plot summary
In 1958 Moscow, Katerina, Lyudmila and Antonina share a workers' dormitory after leaving the provinces. Katerina works in a factory and studies at night, hoping to enter college. Antonina is a construction worker dating Nikolay, a reserved co-worker. Lyudmila, who works in a bakery, spends her spare hours in a university library, looking to marry well. Katerina agrees to house-sit for wealthy relatives, and Lyudmila persuades her to host a dinner party where they can meet successful men. There Katerina meets Rudolf, a television cameraman.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears (1980)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- U.S. president Ronald Reagan watched Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears several times before his meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, hoping the film would help him understand the "Russian soul".
- Six established actresses, among them Anastasiya Vertinskaya and Margarita Terekhova, auditioned for the part of Katerina, but most disliked the script, so the role went to the director's wife, Vera Alentova.
- Vitaly Solomin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg Yefremov and Leonid Dyachkov all auditioned for the part of Gosha, but none convinced the director, who considered playing it himself until he saw Aleksey Batalov on television in My Dear Man.
- Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears is one of only four Russian films to have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; the others are War and Peace (1966–1967), Dersu Uzala (1975) and Burnt by the Sun (1994).
