Soviet divorce hits different when your ex is still your type.
While waiting for her first child, young teacher Masha Pavlova suddenly decides that her husband does not understand her, and therefore does not respect her interests. Having ceased to understand each other, the couple divorced. Nikolai, who once loved her but is now divorced and clearly suffering from loneliness, reappears in her life.
Acting
Natalya Yegorova's pregnant silences speak entire dissertations.
Direction
Yashin frames desire as something observed through windows.
Director
Boris Yashin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1981 Soviet TV movies like this operated as national therapy—state-funded processing of private pain in collective living rooms.
Emmanuil Vitorgan (Nikolai) became one of Soviet cinema's definitive 'sad divorced men'—this role essentially typecast him for decades.
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