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Soviet feature film. Filmed by Moscow Film Studio 1979. Written by Chernih, directed by Schouw in Myanmar, starring Alien Tova. 198 1 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. This highly ornamental film replaced the previous sermon with tortuous characters' fates, which resonated with audiences of all ages. It not only created a very high box office in China, but also won the Oscar for best foreign language film in the second year. The plot of this film began in the 1950s and ended in the 1970s. The film compares the two eras, focuses on the fate of middle-aged people, depicts the psychological state of this generation, and involves many issues of general concern to the audience, such as morality, happiness, life value and so on. The main characters in the film, Katerina and Guo Sha, left a very unforgettable impression on the audience in China.

Chinese name

moscow does not believe in tears

Foreign name

moscow does not believe in tears

Production area

the Soviet Union

Directing performance

Vladimir Menshov

stage a play

Valentin Chernykh

Category type

love

Leadership performance

Vera Alentova, Aleksey Batalov, Irina Molavi Jova

Film length

150 minutes

Release time

1980 February 1 1

grading

Argentina: 16

conversational language

Russian

colour

colour

Imdb coding

tt0079579

Mixed sound

single track

1 Introduction to the story

Katrina, who came last in the college entrance examination, wanted to work harder next year, so she decided to stay in Moscow to find a job and continue preparing for the exam. She got a job in a metal clothing factory and returned to the dormitory gloomily. She lives with two friends, Maria and lyudmila.

The painter Maria is a girl with traditional thoughts, hoping to have a reliable partner and build a happy family. Now she has a boyfriend, Nicholas, who is also a worker. Baker lyudmila is enthusiastic and open-minded, but he has vanity. She wants to win the first place in Moscow with her beauty and live a pampered life. She envies the life of the upper class and likes to make friends with celebrities.

Once Professor Ji and his family went on vacation and asked Katrina to look after their family. When she invited lyudmila into the professor's house, they were stunned by the elegant residence of the senior intellectual. Lyudmila suddenly had an idea: hold a party here and invite celebrities from the literary and art circles and sports circles. Naturally, I will dress up as the professor's daughter and come forward to entertain. On the party day, there was a handsome young man among the guests. He is a TV photographer, Lakkov. Rakhkov fell in love with the beautiful "professor's little daughter" Katrina, and courted her, asked her to take photos at the TV station and invited her to visit her home, which touched the girl's heart. Catalina could not resist his temptation and entrusted herself to him. Katrina works well in the metal garment factory. She is an excellent worker. She was interviewed by a TV station, and this time Lakkov happened to be in charge of shooting. Katrina was very alarmed because she had not had time to explain her true identity to Lakoff. But for the sake of women's dignity, she answered the TV announcer's questions frankly and honestly. Lakkov was shocked to see Katrina here and realized that she was not the professor's daughter.

When they sat on the bench in the street garden where they often met again, Rachkov relentlessly said that she would break up with Katrina, who was pregnant, but Rachkov turned against him and denied that the child was his. Lyudmila was indignant about it. She called Lakoff's mother, hoping that she could change her son's attitude. Unexpectedly, the mother was as snobbish as her son, saying that his son was seduced by a bad woman and asked Katrina to have an abortion. But Katrina didn't. She saved the child.

A few months later, she became a mother and named her newborn daughter Alexandra. Daughter became her hope and comfort, giving her the courage and strength to live. Her two best friends and Nicholas take good care of her and her children, and the friendship of friends makes her feel warm. From then on, she worked during the day and took care of the children. In the evening, after the children fell asleep, she worked hard and studied hard until late at night. After 16 years, Katrina finished her higher education and became a chemical expert and the director of a chemical fiber joint factory with 3,000 workers, but she is still single and lives alone with her daughter 16 years old. She, Maria and lyudmila still maintained their girlhood friendship and often stayed together. Maria and Nicholas have three children and live a happy family life. However, lyudmila's life has gone through many ups and downs, and all her pursuits have come to nothing, but she is still unwilling to give up.

One day in early autumn, three friends gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Maria. In the evening, Katrina and Maria sat on the porch steps and chatted. Katrina said that she envied Maria to have a happy family. Maria advised her to find someone to start a family quickly. But where is the ideal partner?

In the evening, Katrina said goodbye to Maria's family and got on the tram alone. Katrina sat in the car thinking about her situation and couldn't help feeling blue. At this moment, a middle-aged man came along. He got catalina's permission and sat down beside her. Two people began to chat, chatting very speculatively. This man's name is Guo Sha. He is a bachelor and a first-class welder. He guessed that Katrina was also a worker or a bachelor. Katrina just smiled. The encounter in the tram stirred up waves in Katrina's heart, and she vaguely felt that she had been pursuing a man like Guo Sha for many years: a pair of sharp eyes and wisdom.

Two days later, she went home with the food she had just bought. On the way, someone took the big bag from her hand. She regards it as fruit sand. She took Guo Sha home and introduced him to her daughter Alexandra. The daughter looked at the fruit sand coldly. Fruit sand let catalina rest, he quickly went to prepare dinner, and soon the food was delivered. At the dinner table, Guo Sha said to Alexandra, "I will live with my mother, although they have known each other for two days and nights."

Early the next morning, Guo Sha invited Katrina and her daughter to go out. They had a picnic by the river in the forest. The beauty of nature is intoxicating. Katrina tried to tell Guo Sha her true identity several times, but Guo Sha didn't want to listen. There is still a long way to go.

The relationship between Katerina and Guo Sha soon became hot and inseparable. However, she never dared to tell the identity of her factory director, fearing that Guo Sha would know that the relationship between the latter two would change, because as lyudmila said: "Men don't like women's status higher than themselves, and men are willing to be their own masters."

As luck would have it, the TV station interviewed the joint factory led by katerina, and the photographer was Lakkov. He didn't want to go at first, but when he heard that the director was a middle-aged and beautiful single woman, he became interested and insisted on going out in person. When Rakhkov recognized this elegant female factory director as Katrina sixteen years ago, he was shocked again. He regretted abandoning her. But he still has hope. Don't they have children? It's time to be sixteen. Catalina couldn't stand his pestering and agreed to meet on a bench in the street garden where she broke up.

Rakhkov presented a bouquet of flowers to show his love and mentioned the child he refused to admit. But catalina flatly rejected him. "The past is the past, and my daughter has nothing to do with it. Now I want to marry another person. "

One night a few days later, Katrina was very tired after a busy day. She really wants to have a good rest. Guo Sha prepared dinner for her at home. Alexandra and her boyfriend Nikita are arguing. Soon Nikita left. Guo Sha found that Alexandra's look was wrong, and only after asking did she know that Alexandra's ex-boyfriend called seven boys to beat Nikita for jealousy. Nikita is going to make an appointment now. Guo Sha immediately asked two workers to arrive at the appointed place with Alexandra. Guo Sha and other three workers stopped the group fight with their fists, then mediated and asked the boys to ensure that it would not happen again.

Nikita and Alexandra admire Gosha for this. On the way home, Alexandra asked Gosha why she didn't continue to make progress and become a leader. Guo Sha believes that happiness does not lie in the position, but in his understanding, happiness means freedom and respect.

When they got home, Katrina didn't think so. She thinks Alexandra has grown up and should deal with the trouble caused by her lack of seriousness. And fruit sand should not punish people with fists, reasoning is more powerful than fists.

At this moment, the doorbell rang and Lakoff came. As a courtesy, Katrina let him in. Lakkov deliberately talked to everyone about shooting TV in Katrina's factory, and Guosha wanted to see it. Lakkov took the opportunity to invite Guo Sha to the TV station the next day.

After the two left, Katrina's mood was extremely complicated and she couldn't calm down for a long time. She knew that their relationship would change when Guo Sha watched TV. She suddenly lost control. She told her daughter that Lakkov was her biological father. She blamed herself for having cheated twice in her life. The first time she cheated, she paid the price of 16 years of hard life. This time, she will lose her sincere love for Guosha. Of course, for people like Rakhkov who don't understand love and life, cheating or not is the same. What he wants is the professor's daughter, a woman who is a factory director, not a country girl or a textile worker. Even if she marries him, she will be abandoned by him in the future But for a man like Guo Sha, cheating is unfair to him.

Fruit sand did not appear. Katrina was in great pain, and her friends finally had to go to her house to comfort her. Lyudmila said to her, "Don't cry, Moscow doesn't believe in tears. You should not cry now, but act. "

Nicholas told them to wait at Katrina's house, and he went to find Guo Sha. Guo Sha was alone at home to drown his sorrows. Nicholas accompanied him to drink to show sympathy, and finally persuaded Guo Sha to take him back to Catalina's house. Katrina and her friends are anxiously waiting for their return. When Nicholas came back with the fruit sand, the fruit sand went into Katrina's room. At that moment, it seemed as if the air in the whole world had solidified.

The friends left soon, leaving only three people to have lunch at the dinner table. Katrina scooped up red vegetable soup for Guo Sha and looked at him affectionately. In his eyes, he didn't know whether he was happy, excited or sighed infinitely after he found it.

There are many touching places in the film, especially the teaching materials close to life, which are very real in that false and empty era.