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
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.