Nika (2022) on Netflix

Plot summary

As a girl, Nika Turbina recites the poems that come to her in dreams, and her mother writes them down. The verses make her famous across the Soviet Union, and her childhood passes in tours, interviews, bohemian parties and meetings with celebrities. The end of the 1990s finds her 27 years old and long silent, with alcohol and questions about where her voice went filling the days. Because of the age restriction she has a single attempt at the Drama School, her one way out of her mother's apartment. Ivan, who gave up a diplomatic career, is cheerful and independent, and their meeting raises her hopes. Something in her memory still triggers her.