A young Russian girl is in love with show business and wants to leave her small town for Moscow and make it big in the big city. She encounters her long missing, remarried father and gets a boy friend who uses her and then leaves her.
Acting
Muravyova's Nina breaks your heart without asking permission.
Direction
Lioznova walks the comedy-drama tightrope like a pro.
Director
Tatyana Lioznova
Irina Muravyova
Nina Solomatina
Yuriy Yakovlev
Mikhail Solomatin
Klara Luchko
Josephine Viktorovna
Aleksandr Abdulov
Nikita
Vera Vasileva
Nikita's mother
Aleksandr Mikhaylov
Remizov
Lidiya Smirnova
Chairman of the Commission
Valentina Titova
landlady
Yelena Tonunts
guest at the Nina's party
Inga Budkevich
Roman Monastyrsky
Dima
Alevtina Rumyantseva
mother of Nina
Ekaterina Zhemchuzhnaya
Karma
Zinaida Vorkul
Zinaida
Georgy Zhemchuzhny
Karma's husband
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the late Soviet era, the film subtly critiques the gap between provincial life and Moscow privilege — a tension the censors almost missed.
The carnival sequences were shot at an actual traveling circus, and Muravyova performed her own singing after months of training.
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