Your crush's dad just married your mom — Soviet teen angst at its finest.
The happy days of the first love of eighth graders dimmed when they learned that Nadina's mother and Serezha's recently widowed father were going to live together. The youthful maximalism of adolescents hurts parents.
Acting
Teen actors nail that specific agony of ruined crushes.
Direction
Lyrchikov frames cramped apartments like emotional prisons.
Director
Nikolai Lyrchikov
Zhanna Prokhorenko
Darya Lukyanova
Andrey Martynov
Nikolay Letov
Margarita Lobko
Nadya Lukyanova
Anton Golyshev
Sergey Letov - Nikolay's son
Nikolai Pastukhov
Ivan Dmitriyevich
Vera Vasileva
Anna Igoryevna
Elena Proklova
Valya
Galina Makashkina
Tonya - Nikolay's daughter
Aleksandr Adamovich
Pavlik - Tonya's husband
Tatyana Fyodorova
Zinaida Andreyevna - teacher
Vladimir Pinchevsky
Semyonov
Olga Grigoryeva
Milkmaid
Klavdiya Kozlyonkova
Milkmaid
Tatyana Kuznetsova
Milkmaid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Soviet 'youth problem' films of this era often used teen romance to critique bureaucratic family policies.
Zhanna Prokharenko, playing the mother, was only 12 years older than her 'daughter' Margarita Lobko — Soviet casting magic.
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